About the only thing the CIA man managed to convince the IAEA experts of was that, actually, he didn’t have the first clue what he was talking about… Another officer was so struck by Joe T’s initial briefing that he wondered whether the CIA man was trying to start a war…

From the new book by Dominic Streatfeild, A History of the World since 9/11, published in February 2011 (UK) by Atlantic Books, August 2011 (US) by Bloomsbury Press.