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Kill or Capture (Alexander book)

2011 book by Matthew Alexander


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2011 book by Matthew Alexander

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nameKill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist
imageFile:Kill or Capture.jpg
captionFirst edition
authorMatthew Alexander
countryUnited States
publisherMacmillan Publishing
pub_date2011
media_typePrint
pages304
isbn9780312656874

Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist is a book published by Macmillan Publishing in early 2011. The author, a former interrogator, criticizes the use of "extended interrogation techniques". The author, who wrote under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, was interviewed on National Public Radio on February 14, 2011. He said Alexander is also the author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq. According to Jeff Stein, writing in The Washington Post, the author's real name was Anthony Camerino, a major in the United States Air Force Reserve.. | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130209233514/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2011/02/matthew_alexander_half_of_spec.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 9, 2013 | author-link = Jeff Stein (author) Steven E. Levingston, also writing in the Washington Post, asserted that the book describes how bad intelligence routinely lead to targeting the wrong individuals. | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130209001145/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2011/02/iraq_special_ops_member_chroni.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 9, 2013

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