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Hussain Al Shahristani

The former nuclear scientist discusses how he endured torture and solitary confinement under Saddam Hussein's regime for refusing to build a bomb. A decade later he escaped, eventually becoming oil minister of the new Iraq, drafting a law on how to divide up the revenue among the Iraqi people.

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26 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project