The head of Iraq's nuclear program, identified as Jafar al-Jafar, has surrendered to a foreign government, the NBC television network quoted American officials as saying on Sunday. However, US officials have yet to gain access to him.
Jafar headed Iraq's nuclear programme for nearly two decades and could provide useful information, the network said.
Jafar "certainly would know about their nuclear program as possible locations of nuclear related facilities, and also would know a lot of people associated with Iraq's nuclear program, as well as likely other aspects of the WMD program," said an American official. "Hopefully he will be more forthcoming and candid than he has been to date," said the official. (Albawaba.com)
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