Israel attacks Iraqi nuclear installation

Title

Israel attacks Iraqi nuclear installation

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:11:32

Description

Report on Israel’s attack on the Osirak nuclear plant in Iraq. Includes excerpts of speeches by Israel’s prime minister Menachem Begin and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Also includes telephone reports by Peter Allen-Frost, Connie Lawn and Ian Murray, and interviews with Hans Meyer of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Labour Foreign Affairs spokesman Denis Healey; Israeli Ambassador to London, Shlomo Argov; Sir Anthony Kershaw, Chairman of the Commons Committee on Foreign Affairs. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Ian Murray; Menachem Begin; Margaret Thatcher; Denis Healey; Anthony Kershaw; Shlomo Argov; Peter Allen-Frost?; Connie Lawn; Hans Meyer

Keywords

Israel; Nuclear weapons; Anwar Sadat; Michael Foot; Nuclear reactors; Iraq; Saddam Hussein; Osirak; Philip Habib

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