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A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror
A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror
A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror
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A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror

By Dominic Streatfeild

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To understand why, you'll need to know how ...



  1. - an Australian metals trader named Garry-with help from the CIA-inadvertently triggered the invasion of Iraq
  2. - coalition troops were killed by bombs made with explosives that, according to the White House, never existed
  3. - the United States Air Force bombed a wedding in Afghanistan by mistake
  4. - the U.S. gave material support to the president of Uzbekistan, who, as it happens, boils people alive

These are not merely random disasters from an otherwise effective war. A History of the World Since 9/11shows us just why, a decade after the horrifying attacks on New York and Washington, we are no closer towinning the war on terror than we were on September 10, 2001. We failed to find Osama bin Laden or quellextremism. We sparked civil wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Around the world, innocents were incarcerated,tortured, and murdered-all in the name of justice.


Acclaimed author and journalist Dominic Streatfeild traveled across the world for years in pursuit ofanswers for this stunning collapse of international law. The results of his search form the most fully realized study of the war on terror yet written. Piercing reportage blends with sobering human drama, woven into eight narratives of how our world went wrong after 9/11.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
Release dateAug 15, 2011
ISBN9781608193868
A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror
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Dominic Streatfeild

Dominic Streatfeild is the author of Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography and Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control, which was shortlisted forthe Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in the UK with his family.

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    "Anger crackles from every page" reads one of the blurbs on the back cover. I would certainly agree with that. Dominic Streatfeild has a penned a book that enrages you at every turn and yet forces you to keep reading.The book is not so much a history of the world, but eight stories that show the changes in attitudes, perceptions, policies, tactics and relationship in the world since the 9/11 tragedy.