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Saddam's Bombmaker Jeff Stein

Saddam's Bombmaker By Jeff Stein

Saddam's Bombmaker by Jeff Stein


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Summary

The defector, once responsible for Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons programme, reveals for the first time what the CIA and Iraq desperately want hidden: that Saddam Hussein is devastatingly close to manufacturing nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them.

Saddam's Bombmaker Summary

Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon by Jeff Stein

Is Iraq only months away from developing a nuclear bomb? In 1994, after twenty years in Iraq's nuclear energy and weapons programme, Dr. Khidhir Hamza made a daring escape to warn the CIA of Saddam's nuclear progress... only to be turned away! Now Dr Hamza reveals in full the shocking story that Western officials have finally come to believe. Among the book's revelations: Iraq already has biological weapons and is capable of completing a nuclear weapon within months if international sanctions are lifted; Western corporations and governments facilitated Iraq's nuclear programmme by putting profits ahead of security and averting their eyes as Saddam obtained his necessary nuclear technology; if threatened, Saddam has sworn to create a Doomsday scenario in the Middle East. And current sources within Iraq confirm that the author's frightening information is completely up to date. As a former resident of the Presidential Palace, Hamza paints a vivid portrait of Saddam's women, his secret bank accounts, his fear of germs, and his impulsive torture and execution of close aids. The account of Hamza's escape and that of his family add to a compelling work that is impossible to put down.

Saddam's Bombmaker Reviews

Barbara Crossette The New York Times Book Review Gripping and unsettling...the rare account of the life of the privileged in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
William E. Odom The Washington Post Written in an easy journalistic style...not only stranger but frequently bloodier than fiction.
John Dinges author of Assassination on Embassy Row A true spy adventure that rivals The Great Escape. The story of one man's terrible secret, his conscience, and his drive to avert what would have been one of the century's epic crimes.
Publishers Weekly, starred review Hamza indicts Iraq under Saddam, painting a detailed and convincing portrait of what it's like to live in a country under a violent dictator. Of the broadest interest to a wide spectrum of readers concerned about the fate of the world in the nuclear age.

About Jeff Stein

Khidhir Hamza was educated at MIT and Florida State University before being forced to return to Iraq. He now lives in Virginia.

Table of Contents


Contents

Introduction

1. Escape

2. Roots in the Sand

3. Going Home

4. The Secret

5. The Life of the Party

6. Crunch Time

7. Accidents Will Happen

8. Spies and Lies

9. The Inside Game

10. The Invisible Empire

11. Getting the Goods

12. The Winds of War

13. Aftermath

14. The Fugitive

15. In from the Cold

Epilogue: End Game

Appendix: Behind the Scenes with the Iraqi Nuclear Bomb

Index

Additional information

GOR001829480
9780743211352
0743211359
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon by Jeff Stein
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Simon & Schuster
2002-03-18
352
N/A
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