right-of-way three things were obvious to travis patriquin and his colleagues.they had to attack the firepower and they they also had to rebuild the shattered local iraqi police force and reach out to the remaining tribal shakes. a lot of them had fled the horror of this and there weren't many left. although he was only a junior officer, patrick and became the -- patriquin launch the awakening movement that helped transform the award. i think travis patriquin's symbol not only the americans have served in iraq but the americans who died there and that many americans who help the iraqis tried to build a new nation out of the horror of this war. perhaps the best way of understanding who patriquin was was to hear what the iraqis said about him and what they told me. in the words of the man who created the awakening movement, travis patriquin was quayle in and in this short name and very important role. he was my brother. he spoke arabic and he looked like an arab man. when he came at the start of the awakening we needed someone like him. he was humble and friendly,

his closest american contact in this war was travis patriquin and patriquin told anybody who would listen, he is the key to ramadi. nothing will work without him. he is the center of gravity for us and maybe he can change everything. this might be the way out of iraq for us. turns out largely what patriquin wanted it to because he proved to be very effective in fighting al qaeda and try to begin to flip from pro-al qaeda to the coalition side. in my book there are few scenes of patriquin in action. one of them was patriquin first met him. he shows up with a mustache and he speaks arabic slang, iraqi arabic and his first meeting face-to-face at what part of iraq are you from, the north or the south? patriquin as he often did would say something like no i'm from chicago. i am an american and many iraqis were befuddled by that because he thought he might've been an iraqi left as a child and done over and came back with a funny western accident. they met and quickly became very close allies through this struggle. >> you can watch this and other programs on line of booktv.org. >> you dinesh d'