Description The riveting, exclusive True Story of an Iraq whistleblower who continues to be betrayed by his country, as told by an international bestselling author.
Midnight in Samarra is the Story of one man\'s courage and conviction, and the.
His command--and high-ups in both the military and the government--lied, dissembled, obfuscated, danced, and dodged while Ford endured libel, slander, and innuendo, feared for his life, and, nearly a decade after the drugging on the plane, learned that the chemical injected into him had done permanent damage to his heart and nervous system.
Years later, Gregory Ford is still trying to get justice.
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.
Ford\'s information about Hussein\'s location, which could have led to the dictator\'s capture six months earlier, was also ignored and suppressed.
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 Hussein\'s main banker as a result of Ford\'s intelligence work vanished without a trace.
But why? Midnight in Samarra is the shocking True Story of one soldier\'s 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.
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.
Description The riveting, exclusive True Story of an Iraq whistleblower who continues to be betrayed by his country, as told by an international bestselling author
