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To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind

✍ Scribed by Johnson, Kirk W

Book ID: 108655281
Publisher: Scribner
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781476710488

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✦ Synopsis

The stunning memoir of "one of the few genuine heroes of America's war in Iraq" (Dexter Filkins), a rare glimpse into the perspective of the Iraqi people, and a searching exploration of America's moral obligations to those Iraqis who stepped forward to help.

In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only American employee who spoke Arabic. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq.

Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city's IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators--young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted by the idea of a peaceful, democratic Iraq. It was not to be. As sectarian violence escalated, Iraqis employed by the U.S. coalition found themselves subject to a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and death.

On his first brief vacation,...

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