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High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam

American television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam is an American political thriller limited series created by Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham and developed by Leslie Greif for TNT. The series premiered on September 13, 2026, and is inspired by the memoir Debriefing the President by John Nixon. It stars Joel Kinnaman as Nixon and Waleed Zuaiter as Saddam Hussein.

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“High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam” enters the record as american television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what High, Value and Target can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around High, Value and Target.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.