] Richard Wilson, Harvard University, January 1, 2003
]
] On Dec. 19 GNN ran an article about a relatively unknown
] former Iraqi atomic weapons scientist named Imad Khadduri
] ("In Search of Saddam's Bomb," A. Lappé). Khadduri, who
] currently lives in Canada, claims Saddam's push for the
] bomb began in earnest after the Israeli raid on Osirak, a
] French-made nuclear reactor the Israelis claimed Iraq
] could use to build a nuclear weapon. Here Harvard
] professor Richard Wilson, who visited the reactor after
] the attack, confirms much of Khadduri's acount of that
] incident and the effects it had on Saddam's atomic
] strategy. "Preemption," Wilson argues, is a dangerous
] game:

The Lessons of Osirak