US Sets Saddam's Scientists Free

BBC ^ | 12-19-2005

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Iraq Scud boss poisoned
The Sun ^ | March 1, 2003 | GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
Posted on 02/28/2003 5:59:05 PM PST by MadIvan

SADDAM Hussein’s top missile expert has been murdered to stop him blabbing to the UN.

General Muhammad Sa’id al Darraj died on Thursday after Saddam’s men poisoned his drink.

Relatives say he was ordered to hide details of Iraqi Scuds from the UN — but devious Saddam did not trust him.
The revelation came as President Bush warned war was imminent.

He said Saddam would be forced to give up his weapons — whatever the UN decided. He added: “If he had any intention of disarming, he would have disarmed. We will disarm him now.”

Bush called war the “last option” but said Americans fully understood an attack may be launched soon.

He added: “I’ve thought long and hard about the consequences and the price that could be paid.”

His comments came as UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Iraq was expected to start destroying its outlawed Al Samoud 2 missiles on Saturday.

The rockets can carry chemical and biological warheads and travel more than 90 miles — the maximum range laid down by the UN.

General al-Darraj was murdered hours before Saddam agreed to the destruction. The engineer had been called to a meeting at one of Saddam’s palaces for talks about how to mislead UN scientists over Iraq’s Scud programme.

Moments before he died, he managed to tell his family Saddam’s officials had spiked his drink with poison.

British intelligence chiefs said the murder was another example of Saddam’s ruthlessness.

They said it underlined his total disregard for human rights.

Saddam had his own son-in-law assassinated when he exposed the tyrant’s weapons of mass destruction.

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* Rihab Taha aka "Dr. Germ": Iraqi. A cunning woman scientist who heads Saddam Hussein's bio-terrorism team Rihab Taha, 45, is so notorious that United Nations weapons inspectors have nicknamed her "Dr. Germ" for deadly experiments she conducted. - "SECRETS OF 'DR. GERM'," by BILL HOFFMANN, New York Post , 10/22/01 *** She is also politically well-connected. Her husband is Iraqi oil minister Amir Rashid Ubaydi, who helps direct the country's relations with the U.N. weapons-inspection teams. U.N. inspectors believe Rihab Taha, who has a 5-year- old daughter, tests her poisons on human guinea pigs. Dr. John Turner, who once taught Rihab Taha biology, told London's Sunday Mirror: "It's a great shock, like finding your daughter has gone and done something dreadful." - "SECRETS OF 'DR. GERM'," by BILL HOFFMANN, New York Post , 10/22/01

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It wasn't reporterd much- I guess the MSN was too busy reporting on the latest from Aruba or the Michael Jackson trial.

FEBRUARY 13, 2005 : (IRAQ : IRAQI SCIENTIST IS ABDUCTED, IS KILLED DURING RESCUE ATTEMPT) An Iraqi scientist died in a shoot-out between gunmen and police in Al-Karkh as the police tried to rescue him from a gang of kidnappers, Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on 13 February. The Interior Ministry said the gunmen were later arrested and were found to members of a gang specialized in abducting and assassinating Iraqi scientists and university professors. ----- "Scientist dies in shoot-out, gang captured," (Al-Sharqiyah, Baghdad, in Arabic 13 Feb 05) via IRAQI NEWS, 13 Feb 05 via http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:pmmX55CCgjMJ:www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2005/02/imm-050214-unami.htm+%22iraqi+scientist%22+escape&hl=en

[Lejes Rimul]

I have an idea what just happened....but won't post it in the open.

Gee, thanks for contributing that. < /sarcasm>

[Cindy]

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Dr. Germ ... such a kidder pic.twitter.com/UdPEFrbdDS

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