Woman with Saddam on Iraqi TV is top biological weapons scientist
ArKLyte
Associated Press
March 27, 2003
JOHN J. LUMPKIN
WASHINGTON, Mar 27, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A woman seen
on Iraqi television Thursday meeting with Saddam Hussein is believed
to be one of the regime's top biological weapons scientists, U.S.
intelligence officials said.
The video recording of the meeting, which included other Iraqi
leaders, was portrayed as current by Iraqi television, but U.S.
officials said it was unclear when it was made.
Intelligence officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said
that the woman among the half-dozen men in the video is Huda Salih
Mahdi Ammash, believed to have played a key role in rebuilding
Baghdad's biological weapons capability in the mid-1990s.
The officials did not know whether to place any significance on
Ammash's appearance in the video. Qusai Hussein, Saddam's younger son
and probable successor, also appeared on the recording.
Ammash is among a new generation of leaders named by Saddam to leading
posts within Iraq's Baath party, intelligence officials said. In May
2001, she was assumed a high-level post with the Baath party regional
command.
She was trained by Nassir al-Hindawi, described by U.N. inspectors as
the father of Iraq's biological weapons program, the U.S. officials
said.
Ammash and al-Hindawi are among Iraq's top weapons scientists. Others
include Amir al-Saadi, a chief chemical weapons researcher, and Dr.
Rihab Taha, a woman who was dubbed "Dr. Germ" by inspectors.
Ammash served as president of Iraqi's microbiological society and as
dean at Baghdad University, officials said. She attended college in
Texas and received additional training in Europe.
She played a role in organizing Baath activities in Jordan, Lebanon
and Yemen, officials said.
Her father was a high-level party revolutionary who was believed to
have been ordered killed by Saddam, officials said.
Iraqi television has aired two speeches by Saddam and video of several
meetings since the war started. None contain any conclusive proof of
when they were recorded.
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"Ah yes, we must mollify angry fanatics who seek our destruction
because otherwise .. they might get mad and seek our destruction."
- Ann Coulter 9/26/2002
Little O. Abbey
news:9og78vcenatansigr...@4ax.com...
> Woman seen with Saddam on Iraqi TV is top biological weapons scientist
>
> WASHINGTON, Mar 27, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A woman seen
> on Iraqi television Thursday meeting with Saddam Hussein is believed
> to be one of the regime's top biological weapons scientists, U.S.
> intelligence officials said.
<snip>
> Mahdi Ammash, believed to have played a key role in rebuilding
> Baghdad's biological weapons capability in the mid-1990s.
>
> The officials did not know whether to place any significance on
> Ammash's appearance in the video. Qusai Hussein, Saddam's younger son
> and probable successor, also appeared on the recording.
>
> Ammash is among a new generation of leaders named by Saddam to leading
> posts within Iraq's Baath party, intelligence officials said. In May
> 2001, she was assumed a high-level post with the Baath party regional
> command.
> She was trained by Nassir al-Hindawi, described by U.N. inspectors as
> the father of Iraq's biological weapons program, the U.S. officials
> said.
<SNIP>
> Her father was a high-level party revolutionary who was believed to
> have been ordered killed by Saddam, officials said.
Why is she helping these bastards?
Doesn't the U.S. have pull with her, having been educated in the U.S.A?
Was she forced to watch Hussein murder her father?
Does she have more family out there?
What about kids? Does she have any kids being held as hostages? Is that why
she's helping the scum in Iraq?
Chas. 'Mark' Bee
If Russia invaded the US, is that what it would take for you?
Made In America
"Chas. 'Mark' Bee" <c-b...@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
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The way you talk, you would be blowing Putin as soon as he hit American
airspace you communist
turista
excellent point...as the enemy shot missiles into Chicago and starved and
humiliated those in the rest of Illinois as they conquered the U.S., I can
see Americans sitting around by candlelight flipping through the Geneva
Convention and U.N. Rules of War to make sure they were playing fairly.