Mantius, Peter. Shell Game: A Story of Banking, Spies, Lies, Politics, and the Arming of Saddam Hussein. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1995. 288 pages.
This is the book that In These Times published an excerpt from. Should have checked the excellent PIR website first.
The above to be preferred to Kenneth Timmerman of The American Spectator book on the arming of Iraq. (Timmerman is the author of the bestselling attack on Jesse Jackson, "Shakedown.") Michael Pugliese