Washington (CNN) -- Just months after the 9/11 attacks, the United States appeared to have its biggest catch in the newly launched war on terror. Abu Zubaydah, considered one of al Qaeda's senior lieutenants, lay in a pool of blood on a street in Faisalabad, Pakistan, having been shot three times during a U.S.-coordinated raid on a house where a group of suspected terrorists was building a bomb. CIA operative John Kiriakou, who helped plan the raid, rushed to the scene. But when he gazed down at the critically wounded man, it didn't quite look like the person he had seen in a 4-year-old passport.
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New book is John Kiriakou's view of life as a spy, role in fighting war on terror
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Kiriakou, who spent 14 years in CIA, tells of capture of an al Qaeda senior lieutenant
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He also talks about 9/11, says decision to invade Iraq made before public debate ended
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He says waterboarding "caused more damage to our national prestige than was worth it"
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