The Deadly Lobby: How The West Armed Iraq (1991) By Kenneth R. Timmerman
 
MONTHS AFTER the triumph of Operation Desert Storm, the questions remain: What is Iraq's military capability, and where did Saddam Hussein get the armaments to provoke the Persian Gulf war? What did he have and what does he have left? The Death Lobby is the first book to detail the Iraqi arms buildup, graphically placing the blame in the laps of the Western countries that supplied weapons to Saddam. Kenneth R. Timmerman has traveled repeatedly to Iraq and is the only Western journalist to have interviewed the men at the helm of that country's strategic weapons programs. He has written a fifteen~year chronicle of Iraq's purchases of tanks, supersonic fighters, chemical weapons, and ballistic missiles, which transformed the country from an insignificant oil state into a regional superpower. The Death Lobby uncovers the front companies and commercial contacts through which Iraq bought arms and embargoed technology. It exposes the conspiracy of silence in Washington, Paris, London, and Bonn, where repeated warnings of Iraq's true intentions were ignored. Based on firsthand interviews conducted over the last six years with scores of arms merchants, Timmerman proves that Saddam Hussein could never have brought about the Persian Gulf war without the cooperation of Western governments. The Death Lobby is as much an indictment of these governments as it is an expose of Western greed at the expense of world peace.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Cover
443 Pages
In Good Condition