The Arming of Saddam Hussein

Adel Darwish is a London-based investigative journalist—a correspondent for the Independent and a regular contributor to the Economist—who has specialized in ferreting out European arms exports to Saddam Hussein.
With “Gregory Alexander,” a pseudonymous British defense journalist, former army officer, and arms trader, he has just published Unholy Babylon: The Secret History of Saddam’s War (London, Victor Gollancz, 1991), the most detailed part of which is a...