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After the Fall of Baghdad… -- with Charles Ferguson
Event Date
Location
- World Affairs Council Auditorium
Address
- 312 Sutter Street
Second Floor
San Francisco, California 94108
Charles Ferguson, Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations
Charles Ferguson is director and producer of No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, which is his first film. Ferguson co-founded one of the earliest Internet software companies, Vermeer Technologies, which was sold to Microsoft. Ferguson has been a visiting scholar at MIT and UC Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a director of the French-American Foundation. He is the author of three books on information technology and its impact on society. He holds a BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT.
 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.
This event is co-sponsored by the Marines' Memorial Association.
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