LoginFire and Water - Region 0
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Formerly Iraq's chief nuclear scientist, Hussain Shahristani refused to collaborate in building nuclear weapons. As a result, he was imprisoned and tortured. During the chaos of the 1991 Gulf War, he barely escaped Saddam Hussein's regime with his life. He and his Canadian wife lived in exile in Iran, working clandestinely with Shia people in southern Iraq to expose Hussein's incessant human rights abuses. Saywell accompanies Shahristani on his dangerous investigations of murder and torture as she constructs a history of Hussein's rise to power. A remarkable and revealing documentary that transcends the discourse of weapons of m
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Release date: 1 January 1995
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