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Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times , The Washington Post Book World , The Boston Globe , The Chicago Tribune , The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review , The Los Angeles Times Book Review , The New York Times Book Review , USA Today , Time , and New York ... read more

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First Sentence

At the time of the Gulf War, in 1991, a man going by the name Samir al-Khalil started appearing on American television news programs.

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  1. George Packer (Author)
 

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