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

Mahdi Obeidi oversaw Saddam's top-secret centrifuge program and later became directorgeneral of Iraq'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 Kurt Pitzer began the Iraq war embedded with the U.S. Army'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'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 magazinesObeidi, Mahdi is the author of 'Bomb in My Garden The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind', published 2005 under ISBN 9780471741275 and ISBN 0471741272.