The Convenient Terrorist

Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies

By: John Kiriakou, Joseph Hickman

Narrated by: Eric Martin

A startling spotlight on the darkest corners of America’s “War on Terror”, where nothing is quite what it seems.

The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first “high-value target” captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the blue-ribbon capture that the Bush White House claimed he was?

Authors John Kiriakou, who led the capture of Zubaydah, and Joseph Hickman, who took custody of him at Guantanamo, draw a far more complex and intriguing portrait of the al-Qaeda “mastermind” who became a symbol of torture and the “dark side” of US security. From a onetime American collaborator to a poster boy for waterboarding, Abu Zubaydah became a “convenient terrorist” - a way for US authorities to sell their “War on Terror” to the American people.

©2017 John Kiriakou, Joseph Hickman (P)2017 Novel Audio Inc.

Awesome story

This was a great story. I listened to whole book im 1.5 days. Good job

Basically a biography of a terrorist.

Initially this book points out the way that intelligence agencies have a tendency to all blend together. American money supporting multiple groups that overtime may align themselves against American interests thereby making previous allies enemies. The book wraps itself up by going into tremendous detail about torture and the treatment of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay for example. Whether the main subject of this book ever gets set free or not is not for me to say but regardless I'm certain he is not without guilt in all this.