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Midnight in Samarra: The True Story of WMD, Greed, and High Crimes in Iraq
The riveting, exclusive true story of an Iraq whistleblower who continues to be betrayed by his country, as told by an international bestselling author.
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 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, enormous Iraqi arms stores of American-made Weapons of Mass Destruction 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 Hussein’s main banker as a result of Ford's intelligence work vanished without a trace. Ford’s information about Hussein’s location, which could have led to the dictator's apprehension six months before his actual capture, 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, restrained him, administered a dangerous mind-altering drug during a Medevac flight, and tried to interrogate him while he was under.
Years later, Gregory Ford is still trying to get justice. 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. Midnight in Samarra is the story of one man’s courage and conviction, and the horrifying truths of one of our most trusted and honored institutions.
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 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, enormous Iraqi arms stores of American-made Weapons of Mass Destruction 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 Hussein’s main banker as a result of Ford's intelligence work vanished without a trace. Ford’s information about Hussein’s location, which could have led to the dictator's apprehension six months before his actual capture, 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, restrained him, administered a dangerous mind-altering drug during a Medevac flight, and tried to interrogate him while he was under.
Years later, Gregory Ford is still trying to get justice. 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. Midnight in Samarra is the story of one man’s courage and conviction, and the horrifying truths of one of our most trusted and honored institutions.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published October 8, 2019
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August 31, 2020First hand account of Iraq war and cover up of some of the nasty business that went on there. Seemed passe, but towards the end, I realized that it is currently apropos. Unfortunately. A good read and very enlightening. Many thanks to the author and all he suffered to get his story told.
September 3, 2019
This is a poignant story concerning why the Iraqi invasion to find WMD's was based on lies and how the main players used the war for their own benefit both financial and political.
Frank Gregory Ford has taken great courage outing those responsible as a whistle-blower during and after the Iraq war even being falsely diagnosed as mentally unstable.
Well written with a lesson that his story should be a warning to all that democracy is fragile and disappears in a blink if complacency sets in.
Thanks to NetGalley and Hot Books
Frank Gregory Ford has taken great courage outing those responsible as a whistle-blower during and after the Iraq war even being falsely diagnosed as mentally unstable.
Well written with a lesson that his story should be a warning to all that democracy is fragile and disappears in a blink if complacency sets in.
Thanks to NetGalley and Hot Books
May 3, 2021
An explosive tale of greed and brutality, war crimes and whistleblowing, monumental misdeeds and cover-ups related to the Iraq occupation that reads like a conspiracy thriller, penned by an author with one hell of a story to tell (and evidently a very high opinion of himself, which didn't endear him to me). While I have no problem imagining that some, perhaps all, of this might very well be true, some corroboration (other than a link to the author's Supreme Court case) of... well... anything other than well-documented events he wasn't involved in sure would have been nice.
December 13, 2021
Dr. Greg Ford endured a lot during his time in the U.S. military. Here is a no-holds-barred rendering of his time in service. He discloses some of the crimes committed by the U.S. government that lead up to, and even after, the events that lead to the war.
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