Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Available On Air Stations
Watch Live

International

Documents Trace Early U.S.-Iraq Dealings

Newly declassified documents from the 1980s shed more light on Iraq's complicated relationship with the United States. The papers include instructions to Donald Rumsfeld -- then a special envoy under President Reagan -- on how to talk to Saddam Hussein about Iraq's use of chemical weapons. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive.

Copyright 2003 NPR