Sleeping with the devil : how Washington sold our soul for Saudi crude /
"In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa'ud's culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist Islamic groups that...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Three Rivers Press,
[2004]
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa'ud's culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist Islamic groups that have been directly linked to international acts of terror, including those against the United States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa'ud family, the fierce anti-Western sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link between the two. In hopes of saving its own neck, the royal family has been shoveling money as fast as it can to mosque schools that preach hatred of America and to militant fundamentalist groups--an end game just waiting to play out."--Amazon.com. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xxxii, 238 pages : map ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 1400052688 9781400052684 |