The book ends with a long post-mortem citizens ... outlived him and become embellished to the point of absurdity. Saddam Hussein was a cruel, evil man—it is said that he once fed one of ...

The book gives powerful support to the idea that the international arms trade is a snake pit filled with well-trained liars in Armani suits. In case the reader is unaware, the Osirak reactor was ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...

This is particularly valuable when the Iraqi slant on some of the events and operations is compared to the American and Coalition perception of Saddam Hussein's intentions. An important read for ...

Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind. Washington’s failure to foresee Saddam Hussein’s ...