Midnight in Samarra: The True Story of Wmd, Greed, and High Crimes in Iraq, Ford Frank Gregory, Cooney Eleanor

Gregory Ford, an intelligence agent and medic, was in Iraq for only a short time--from the invasion in March 2003 until early June of the same year, when he was strapped to a stretcher, drugged, and renditioned out of Iraq in a clandestine and criminal operation at the behest of his command, who were frantically trying to silence him. But why?

Midnight in Samarra is the shocking true story of one soldiers attempt to speak up and report the abuse and torture he saw being inflicted on the local population, as well as secret, incriminating Iraqi arms stores of American-made weapons with bills of lading implicating, among others, famous political families. His warnings about simmering anti-American fury of the local populace were ignored and suppressed by his command; hundreds of millions of dollars in cash seized in the home of Saddam Husseins main banker as a result of Fords intelligence work vanished without a trace. Fords information about Husseins location, which could have led to the dictators capture six months earlier, was also ignored and suppressed. As Ford was filing charges against his superior officers, they seized his weapons (illegal in a war zone), tried to declare him insane, abducted him by force, administered a dangerous mind-altering drug during a Medevac flight, and tried to interrogate him while he was under.