A Brutal Friendship

By - Aburish, Said K.

Floor - Floor 1

Published - St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998

ISBN 10 - 031218543X

ISBN 13 - 9780312185435

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Politics and government

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 327.7301 ABU

Physical Description - 414 pages ; 25 cm

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In A Brutal Friendship, Said K. Aburish traces the true origins of the region's present turmoil to the manner in which corrupt Arab rulers have subordinated the welfare of their subjects to their cultivation of cozy relationships with the West. Using direct evidence from his unrivaled range of Arab sources, he describes how the West -- mostly the CIA -- sponsored Islamic fundamentalism in the 1950s and '60s in an effort to contain Nasser and thwart Soviet designs on the region, how American and British leaders have turned a blind eye to repressive governments when they suit their interests (and toppled them when they do not), and how it is these very machinations that set Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on his bloody road to power.

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