Jafar Dhia Jafar the father of Iraq’s nuclear programme said today that Iraq would have acquired nuclear weapons if it had not been for the invasion of Kuwait. He told the press "We were three years away, give or take a year".
He repeated his claims that there was no nuclear programme after 1991 and that Hans Blix (UN weapons inspector) and Mohamed El Baradei (International Atomic Energy Agency) knew that.
“I think they were heavily pressured not to come out with the truth” he suggested and went on to recall how he was ordered by Saddam to build a nuclear weapon.
