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...nightmare scenario unfolds like this: Shortly after U.S. forces invade Iraq, Saddam Hussein realizes that the end is nigh. Faced with imminent defeat and near certain death, Saddam decides to authorize one final, gruesome act of terror. He plucks a loyal operative from his security service and orders germ scientists to inject him. The operative is slipped out of the country and put on a commercial airliner bound for the U.S. Dozens of passengers within spitting distance of the Iraqi agent are unknowingly infected. Just as U.S. troops arrive in Baghdad, thousands of American civilians begin experiencing fever, nausea...
...need help finding Iraq's stores of deadly agents before they are put to use. "When they're hiding it, you need someone to come forward and tell you where it is," says General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.S. strategists are hoping that if defeat appears inevitable, Saddam's scientists will start talking and his generals will disobey his orders to launch unconventional weapons. But that's just a hope. A senior Arab diplomat predicts that if Saddam intends to use chemical or biological weapons, the U.S. won't be able to stop...
...team would be happy to have an explicit resolution if possible but say they're ready to fight alone--with just a "coalition of the willing"--if the U.N. doesn't step up. They won't even try for a second vote unless they know they can win, since defeat could damage prospects for pulling together an ad hoc alliance...
...pushed around. Knowing that J.F.K. was still reeling from the CIA's failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, he threatened to move against Berlin. "It will be a cold winter," Kennedy said. As matters turned out, it was a cold October the next year. Emboldened by the U.S. defeat at the Bay of Pigs, Khrushchev put offensive missiles in Cuba, and the world came as close to the nuclear brink as it ever...
...intelligence gathering and analysis and into paramilitary operations. The CIA restored the Shah of Iran to his throne in 1953, and the resentment that followed helped spawn the Islamic revolution in that country. Then came the seizure of the American embassy in Iran and the hostage crisis that helped defeat Jimmy Carter. After that, in the 1980s, the CIA ran a not-very-secret war backing the contras in Nicaragua, which led to the Iran-contra scandal that tarnished the presidency of Ronald Reagan...