Summary of Nada Bakos & Davin Coburn's The Targeter

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had returned from Iraq in 2004, after spending a summer there as the CIA’s point person for their Iraq terrorism analysis group in Baghdad. I had volunteered for a temporary duty assignment to Iraq to find signs that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still in Iraq.
#2 The OSP seemed to utterly disregard the analytic tradecraft that the CIA holds dear. They passed along raw intelligence without context and without explaining the reliability of the source to the White House.
#3 In late 2002, the Bush administration pinpointed a new bogeyman to bolster its hegemonic intent: a thirty-six-year-old former drug-dealing street thug from Jordan named Ahmad Fadil al-Nazal al-Khalayleh. He would eventually join al Qaida after the invasion.
#4 The president’s assertion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was connected to al Qaida was a gross exaggeration. The CIA had determined that Zarqawi’s organization didn’t know about the 9/11 attacks, much less participate in them.

Sujets

• Irak
• History
• Middle East
• Iraq
• Histoire
• Middle Est

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669397656
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Nada Bakos & Davin Coburn's The Targeter
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had returned from Iraq in 2004, after spending a summer there as the CIA’s point person for their Iraq terrorism analysis group in Baghdad. I had volunteered for a temporary duty assignment to Iraq to find signs that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still in Iraq.

#2

The OSP seemed to utterly disregard the analytic tradecraft that the CIA holds dear. They passed along raw intelligence without context and without explaining the reliability of the source to the White House.

#3

In late 2002, the Bush administration pinpointed a new bogeyman to bolster its hegemonic intent: a thirty-six-year-old former drug-dealing street thug from Jordan named Ahmad Fadil al-Nazal al-Khalayleh. He would eventually join al Qaida after the invasion.

#4

The president’s assertion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was connected to al Qaida was a gross exaggeration. The CIA had determined that Zarqawi’s organization didn’t know about the 9/11 attacks, much less participate in them.

#5

At the Agency, each analyst finds at his or her desk every morning a brown paper bag decorated with red-and-white candy-cane stripes. These are used to hold classified documents until they can be irretrievably destroyed.

#6

I was scouring reports and documents every morning, and would set aside a handful of reports that seemed relevant. I was trying to paint a picture of the trends and events that were happening in Iraq, and how they related to 9/11 and al Qaida.

#7

I was lost in thought about all that when a soft ding snapped me back to the present. The elevator doors opened on the ground floor of the New Headquarters Building, and I walked through the sun-filled lobby. I was beginning to think about a job offer I had waiting for me at home.

#8

I was struggling with an all-consuming, stressful job and new home ownership. I was also feeling guilty about Iraq and everything I was reading about it. I needed something to distract me.

#9

I was offered a position with the contracting giant Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC. I could have done the work well, and the federal government pay scale wasn’t so bad, but no one enters into service at the CIA for the money.

#10

I had accepted the offer from the Agency, but then I was called back by another counterterrorism unit whose chemical and biological weapons group was looking for someone to lead a targeting team against Zarqawi. I was sold.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I grew up in Denton, Montana, a farming community near the Upper Missouri River Breaks. I learned to ride horses at the age of two, and I loved riding them into the nearby pastures. I was twelve years old when I bought my first horse, a chestnut mare named Coy Lady.

#2

I was the youngest child, and was tasked with replacing the duckfoot shovels on my grandparents’ plow after they fell off or wore down after churning through more than two thousand acres of wheat fields. I loved being in the center of the action, and it meant I didn’t have to laboriously drive the truck to load and unload the grain.

#3

My mother, Eloise, spent the majority of her early life feeling shackled to Denton, Texas, and the grips of a depression that only let up once she escaped that small town years later.

#4

I had lost the confidence I had in my younger years, because I had been raised in a difficult home environment. I was afraid of failure, and I never tried to achieve anything.

#5

I had a typical teenage life, going to high school and falling in love. I was a typical teenager, except for the fact that I had a huge interest in the arts and creative clothing. I was not looking for attention, but I loved the idea of wearing something that made me feel different and creative.

#6