Unholy Babylon is the detailed chronicle of the creation of a monster - Saddam Hussein - aided and abetted by the United States and other western powers. The US needed Saddam, in their estimation, to counter the Iranian threat. The US and European countries were willing to tolerate and to support internal totalitarianism and terror, suppression of dissent by force, gas warfare and other war crimes against internal enemies and Iran, as long as Saddam would fight the Iranian menace. The British looked the other way as Saddam murdered dissenters on their soil. Everyone looked away as virtually every country in Europe, plus the US and Canada, lined up to supply Saddam Hussein with long range rockets and essential atomic bomb technology.
Adel Darwish is eminently qualified for the job of investigating Saddam's empire, having been a veteran foreign correspondent in Iraq before he was thrown out for reporting a major missile testing mis-hap and thus revealing Saddam's secret missile development program.
The hard cover edition of Unholy Babylon has been updated and corrected and is probably well worth the extra investment.
Read this book to understand what is happening now. It has been the source book (sometimes not acknowledged) for several "informed analyses."...

The author and the series is new to me. I found the premise of the book to be somewhat plausible especially in view of the new mission of the NAACP regarding the rebel flag in the Southern states. The idea of a new nation arising from the current form of liberal government is a novell one and that it is a conservative, lessez faire, form of government makes one long for a government that will literally interpret the Constitution. Ben Raines wages war the way it is supposed to be done. Too bad our politicians won't listen. I wish Mr. Johnstone had taken more time with the book. It moved too fast for the ground he covered and there was not as much character development as I would have liked. He may have covered such detail in previous books in the series, however; those which I have not read. If you are conservative, believe in a conservative form of government, want to live your life in peace without government in your hair all of the time, you will enjoy this book.

Once again, William W. Johnstone (and his fictional hero, Ben Raines) show readers how to bring law and justice to a world in chaos. Recommended!