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CHAPTER 22 THE ROAD TO BABYLON O n St. Patrick’s Day of 2003, following a long day of meetings, I was relaxing over a pint of Gu ...

206 AMERICAN SPY Looking back, I am grateful I stuck with my plan, even though the venture required me to survive more obstacles ...

THE ROAD TO BABYLON 207 ican and I left Belgrade early and arrived midmorning at Pristina’s Grand Hotel, where we met with Rugov ...

208 AMERICAN SPY tion was the Serbs would be less likely to arrest or harm Rugova if he was accompanied by an American officer. ...

THE ROAD TO BABYLON 209 After my heart stopped racing, about the same time we were safely pulling up to the bustling entrance to ...

210 AMERICAN SPY I immediately traveled across the world to Stenkovec, the largest of the refugee camps in Macedonia, to make it ...

THE ROAD TO BABYLON 211 then backward and overwhelmed capital, was like navigating a postapoca- lyptic obstacle course. The bord ...

212 AMERICAN SPY The ethnic Albanian manager of the Grand Hotel, who remembered me from my official TDYs in the early 1990s, dra ...

THE ROAD TO BABYLON 213 ness model is not likely to be discussed at Harvard Business School, but I believed at the time it could ...

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CHAPTER 23 MISSION: IMPROBABLE A s any CIA officer will tell you, the key to securely achieving solid results in a foreign land, ...

216 AMERICAN SPY borders were drawn and long before the dawn of Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror. The Dulaimi would be there lon ...

MISSION: IMPROBABLE 217 their luggage were required to pass through metal detectors and physical searches by courteous guards wh ...

218 AMERICAN SPY After learning the shocking details of what Imad had just survived, I was a bit nervous about meeting him late ...

MISSION: IMPROBABLE 219 Originally built on seven hills, the city of Amman is now spread out over almost twenty hills and as ma ...

220 AMERICAN SPY the country afterward. The insurgency had not yet gotten underway on the day we entered Iraq, but armed bandits ...

MISSION: IMPROBABLE 221 storm; it was impossible to gauge how fast we were moving, or if we were even moving at all. On several ...

222 AMERICAN SPY in the large, comfortable home of his uncle “Omar,” an even more prom- inent tribal sheik. Mine was not a senti ...

MISSION: IMPROBABLE 223 Imad had turned one of the villa’s offices into our bedroom, complete with three comfortable twin beds. ...