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Saddam Scientific Adviser Surrenders

By Anne Garrels

Published April 12, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Saddam Hussein's top scientific adviser surrenders to U.S. forces in Baghdad. Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi has been tied to Iraq's chemical weapons program, though he insisted as he gave himself up Saturday that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

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