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- <text id=91TT1913>
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- Aug. 26, 1991: Would-Be Father of Baghdad's Bomb
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Would-Be Father Of Baghdad's Bomb
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- <p>By Sidney Urquhart/Reported by Andrea Sachs
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- <p> His name, Ja'afer Dhaieh Ja'afer, is little known even in
- scientific circles, but U.S. intelligence sources have
- identified the Iraqi-born physicist as his country's version of
- J. Robert Oppenheimer. Ja'afer, a Shi`ite Muslim, is an
- outspoken human-rights advocate who has been jailed for his
- protests against Saddam Hussein's oppression. Yet he has been
- honing his country's nuclear capabilities since the early 1960s.
- He directed operations at the Osirak reactor until an Israeli
- raid destroyed it in 1981, and he later served as senior
- technician for the Tarmiya and Sharqat pilot plants,
- centerpieces of what U.N. investigators say was an advanced
- nuclear weapons program. U.S. government sources contend that
- under Ja'afer's supervision, Saddam's nuclear program got
- sizable infusions of technology from Beijing.
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- </body></article>
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