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1981
In 1981 the Israeli air force conducts a daring cross-border raid, destroying Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility near Baghdad. The Reagan administration condemns the attack. In 1991, Geraldo Rivera’s Now It Can Be Told news program uncovers documents showing Iraqi nuclear scientists attended symposiums in the U.S. detailing how to build nuclear weapons, and these same scientists are later arrested at London’s Heathrow airport trying to smuggle capacitors. We see footage of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, president Regan, vice president George Bush, and photos of the Osirak facility itself.
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