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Guns, Money and Opium

Laleh Khalili, 19 February 2026

The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces 
by Seth Harp.
Viking, 357 pp., £22.50, August 2025, 978 0 593 65508 5
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... urine. According to military medics, others had burns on their bodies.In​ The Fort Bragg Cartel, Seth Harp argues that after the capture of Saddam Hussein, JSOC under General Stanley McChrystal heavily exaggerated the threat of al-Qaida in Iraq in order to ensure a steady flow of funding and support from Washington. The ‘hidden surge’ of special ...

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