Now playingAmerica invades Iraq, and Saddam Hussein vanishes. CIA analyst John Nixon mobilizes a task force to find him. On the embattled streets of Baghdad, Captain Samir hunts door to door for High Value Target No. 1.
High Value Target
S1 · E1 — Baghdad Burns
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Six months into the war, and still no sign of Saddam Hussein. John talks his way to Baghdad, with Samir assigned as his translator. John identifies a target with answers, leading him into the Red Zone.
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Now playingSix months into the war, and still no sign of Saddam Hussein. John talks his way to Baghdad, with Samir assigned as his translator. John identifies a target with answers, leading him into the Red Zone.
Inside Abu Ghraib, John presses Saddam Hussein's cousin for the dictator's whereabouts. Unprepared, John gets drafted onto the chopper headed for operation Red Dawn.
John comes face-to-face with Saddam Hussein. All the while, the insurgents remount their attacks, and Baghdad burns.
In defiance of orders, John forges his way into hostile territory, and ends up in a chase for his life.
After following Saddam's warning, John returns from Najaf with the realization that the real threat is Iran. Now he must convince The White House.
With Saddam on trial, John Nixon tries to convince the CIA that saving Saddam is the only road to peace.
John becomes a pariah in Washington by trying to save Saddam and warning about the coming threat of Iran.