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HARDtalk
with Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraqi defector and activist
Hussain
al-Shahristani, Iraqi defector and activist, is interviewed on BBC
News 24's HARDtalk tonight.
Many
Iraqis who fled Saddam Hussein's regime are now returning to help
rebuild their country.
Among
them is Hussain al-Shahristani, who was chief scientific adviser
to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission.
He
was jailed by Saddam Hussein but managed to flee his prison when
it was bombed during the first Gulf War. He now works for a humanitarian
organisation.
He
talks to Jon Sopel about his first visit to Iraq in the aftermath
of the war.
HARDtalk
is on BBC
News 24 at 11.30pm today (Tuesday 3 June 2003).
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BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
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from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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