The Bomb in My Garden The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind

Praise for The Bomb in My Garden"This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.S. intelligence on the subject. It is a fascinating and rare glimpse inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq-and inside a tyrant's mind." -Fareed Zakaria author of The Future of Freedom"The Bomb in My Garden is important and utterly gripping. The old clicheacute; is true-you start reading, and you don't want to stop. Mahdi Obeidi's story makes clear how hard Saddam Hussein tried to develop a nuclear weapon, and the reasons he fell short. It is also unforgettable as a picture of how honorable people tried to cope with a despot's demands. I enthusiastically recommend this book." -James Fallows National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly"Obeidi was the key scientist in Saddam's centrifuge program, and he was central when they tried to conceal it. He was already thought to be too friendly to the weapons inspectors, and he showed considerable personal courage in coming forward as he did during very unsettled conditions after the war." -David Kay former UN weapons inspector and Head of the Iraqi Survey Group in charge of searching for weapons of mass destruction

MAHDI OBEIDI oversaw Saddam&#146;s top-secret centrifuge program and later became director-general of Iraq&#146;s Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization. The few remaining components and plans for the uranium enriching centrifuge that he voluntarily turned over to the United States during the war still represent the largest collection of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.<BR> KURT PITZER began the Iraq war embedded with the U.S. Army&#146;s 3rd Infantry Division and jumped his embed when Baghdad fell. He met Obeidi there and helped him turn his secrets over to the United States. A journalist with more than a decade&#146;s experience, he has reported from the Balkans, the Middle East, and Afghanistan for the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and numerous magazines.