Betrayed - Paperback

by George Packer (Author)

Drama / 5m 6fMillions of Iraqis spanning the country's religious and ethnic spectrum welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But the mostly young men and women who embraced America's project so enthusiastically that they were prepared to risk their lives for it by aiding the U.S. forces constitute a small minority. On a cold wet night in January 2007 George Packer met two such Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad to hear their story and those of other Iraqis