SPIDER'S WEB
 The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq

ALAN FRIEDMAN
Bantam Books
New York · Toronto · London · Sydney · Auckland
December 1993

CONTENTS

Author's Note
Prologue
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xv

Book One: Spinning the Web     19811989
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
The Tilt Takes Off
The Covert Ethic
The Secret War
The Chilean Connection
The Tools of the Trade
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Rome to Atlanta
The Money Machine
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22
35
45
56
68
81
102
Book Two: The Web Undone     19891993
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
BushBaker and Saddam
See No Evil
And So to War . . .
Justice Delayed
The White House Steers the Cover-Up
The Cover-Up Unravels
The Fate of the Foot Soldiers
Endgame
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148
165
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228
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Appendix A






Appendix B

Appendix C


Notes
Index


Judicial Order in the BNL Case
Issued by Judge Marvin Shoob on
October 5, 1992
Judicial Order in the BNL Case
Issued by Judge Marvin Shoob on
August 23, 1993
Selected Documents Referred to
Throughout the Text
Public Interest Immunity Certificate
Signed by Trisan Garel-Jones of
the Foreign Office, Autumn 1992




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