He was once an international bureaucrat working for the United Nations' Oil-for-Food program -- until he called for "an independent investigation" of the UN's dealings with Saddam Hussein. Explore how hypocrisy thrived in Iraq and the UN, in a darkly comic tale of one man's political coming of age.
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Backstabbing for Beginners: Lessons of Global Diplomacy
Listen Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009 at 1:20 p.m. in Conflict, Economy
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Michael Soussan
author of "Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy" (Nation Books)
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