The untold story of the CIA's secret mission inside Iraq to prepare for the invasion of Iraq--from the secret team leader who led the 2003 mission.

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Introduction : the counterterrorists -- Tracking Al-Qaeda, Saddam, and WMD : Kurdistan, July-August, 2002 -- No joy on this frequency: Kurdistan, October-December 2002 -- Clandestine meetings with the Shia and the Kurds, and hunting Saddam's secret police : Kurdistan, January-March 2003 -- "The Kurds were brilliant and did not fail us" : Kurdistan and Northern Iraq, March-May 2003 -- Epilogue : You don't win a street fight throwing jabs.