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<text id=91TT1913>
<title>
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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