Charles Ferguson on the Looting of Iraq
World Affairs Council: Nor Cal - World Affairs Council of Northern California
After the Fall of Baghdad with Charles Ferguson.Charles Ferguson joins the Council to discuss his Oscar-nominated documentary film and new book No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos.Culled from over two hundred hours of footage collected for the film - as well as additional interviews in response to it - his book provides an investigative record of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003.Confronting such issues as troop levels, the looting of Baghdad, the US military's "surge," and purging professionals from the Iraqi government, Ferguson's book features candid interviews with high-ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and General Jay Garner, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, intelligence officers, and prominent analysts, such as George Packer, Samantha Power, and Christopher Hitchens - World Affairs Council of Northern California