General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:84/2

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #84 / No. 2

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009889

Date of production

1990

Date

1990

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

14 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Clip 1: “News at Ten” report on attempts to export nuclear trigger devices to Iraq. Participants in the report: Joseph Agini (Employee at Euromac London, Ltd.), Douglas Hurd MP (Foreign Secretary), Abdul Razzak al-Hashemi (Ambassador of Republic of Iraq to Paris), Richard Testut (Chairman, CSI Technologies), and Jerry Kowalski (President, CSI Technologies). Reporter: Ken Rees. Clip 2: “One O'Clock News” report on the issue of Iraqi weapon acquisition. British customs officers have discovered huge metal tubes about to be shipped to Iraq; while the Iraqis say the tubes are part of an oil pipeline, the experts suspect they're actually parts of the barrel for a large gun. Participants: Bob Cryer MP (Labor Defense Committee), Henry Dodds (Jane’s Defence Weekly), Dr. Azmi Shafiq Al-Salihi (The Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in London), and Douglas Tweedle (Chief Customs Investigator). Reporters: Michael Stewart, Ben Brown, and Robin White.