This deck is starting to run thin!!!
Posted on 05/05/2003 6:37:38 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater
Saddam's top WMD Scientist... The woman at Saddam's meetings... In Custody.
updating the charts now.
Prof. Huda Saleh Mehdi Ammash Prof. Huda Ammash was born on 1953 in Baghdad/Iraq. She obtained her BSc in Biology/Microbiology, from University of Baghdad 1975, and her MS in Microbiology, Texas University, Denton, Taxes, USA 1979, Prof. Ammash obtaind her PhD in Microbiology/ Minor: Biochemistry, University of Misouri at Columbia, Missouri, USA 1983. Prof. Ammash. Member in more that 65 regional and international academic committees. She was a General Director, Member at the Iraqi Academy of Sciences, 1996- Lab. Assistant, Dep. of Biology, College of Science, Univ of Bagdad, 1975-1976, instructor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Dept of Biology, College of Science, Univ. of Baghdad, 1983-1990. Prof. Ammash was assistan Prof. of Microbiology Jan., 1990-1995, then full Professor of Microbiology 1995, she was Dean of College of Education for Women – University of Baghdad 1993-1995, and Dean of College of Science, 1995-1997. Prof. Huda Ammash was elected as a Fellow of IAS in 2001.
(The bio left out her biggest accomplishments with WMD, particularly Biological warfare development).
This deck is starting to run thin!!!
Iraqi's tie to MU (University of Missour) jars former associates/ MU grad is believed to be a top biological weapons scientist/Staff and wire reports Professors and students reacted with shock Saturday to the possibility that MU graduate Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash is one of Iraq's top biological weapons scientists. Ammash, who was seen on television Thursday meeting with Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein, received a doctoral degree in microbiology from MU in December 1983. U.S. intelligence officials identified Ammash and said she is believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Baghdad's biological weapons capability since the first Gulf War. Olen Brown, a retired MU professor who supervised Ammash's doctoral dissertation, said he was disturbed by the reports. "You are always pleased when your students progress and are appointed to a professorship or make some committee or council, but the difference in this case is obvious," Brown told The Associated Press. "I had no basis for thinking she wasn't as normal and moral and altruistic and dedicated as many of my students, and I am extremely distressed." Georghe Constantinescu, a professor of veterinary anatomy and a naturalized citizen originally from Romania, came to MU the year after Ammash graduated. The College of Veterinary Medicine was part of an arrangement by which degrees in the area of microbiology were granted at the time. "When she was here in '83, no one expected things like Sept. 11 or other criminal acts they commit," Constantinescu said Saturday. "No one expected this kind of development that we witness today." Matt Mahn, a third-year veterinary student, said he was frightened to hear that an MU alumna could be helping Saddam create biological weapons. "With him using them against his own people and other countries, with his record of terrorist activities, it is definitely disturbing," Mahn said. Ammash, 49, spent four years at MU in pursuit of her doctoral degree in microbiology. Her 183-page dissertation focused on how oxygen, which is used by cells in the production of energy and other processes, affected certain cancer drugs, Brown said. MU police records show that on April 2, 1983, Ammash was arrested for disrupting a pro-Iranian's speech during an event at Allen Auditorium marking Ayatollah Khomeini's fifth year in power. The event took place during the Iran-Iraq War. Ammash was charged in Columbia Municipal Court with disturbing the peace. The disposition of the charge was not immediately clear; city officials said they could not locate any open records from the 20-year-old matter. Before coming to MU, Ammash received a master of science degree in microbiology from Texas Woman's University, a state school in Denton, Texas, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Baghdad. She served as dean of the College of Science at Baghdad University from 1995 to 1997 after serving as an instructor and professor. In 2001, she was elected by secret ballot to the Baath Party's executive committee, called the Iraqi Regional Command. Missourian reporter Andrew Mouzin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Not the woman shown on FOX. Although the woman they are showing on FOX is the 5 of hearts, trade minister I think.
At least we continue to round them up.
U.S. intelligence officials said that Ammash, 49, is believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Baghdad's biological weapons capability since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991.
In one of several videos of Saddam released during the war, Ammash was the only woman among about a half-dozen men seated around a table. The videos were used as Iraqi propaganda as invading forces drew closer to Baghdad and it was not known when the meeting happened nor what was the significance of her visibility on camera.
American officials say Ammash is among a new generation of leaders named by Saddam to leading posts within Iraq's Baath party.
On the Pentagon's list the 55 most wanted, she is number 53 and referred to as the party's Youth and Trade Bureau Chairman.
The U.S. officials said she was trained by Nassir al-Hindawi, described by United Nations inspectors as the father of Iraq's biological weapons program. Ammash has served as president of Iraqi's microbiological society and as dean at University of Baghdad.
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.
Her father was a high-level party revolutionary who was believed to have been ordered killed by Saddam, officials said.
Ammash received a master of science in microbiology from Texas Woman's University, in Denton, Texas, and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Baghdad. Ammash, 49, later spent four years at the University of Missouri-Columbia in pursuit of her doctorate in microbiology, which she received in December 1983. [End]
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "ARMS SCIENTIST SAID TO HAVE FLED TO SYRIA" by Rowan Scarborough (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Some of Iraq's top weapons scientists already have fled their country and are in Syria, from where they may seek political safety in France, administration sources said yesterday. The officials said among those believed to have made it to Syria are Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash and Rihab Taha, both top scientists in Iraq's biological-weapons program. The administration sources said there are intelligence reports that one, or both, made it to Damascus. Mrs. Taha is a British-trained microbiologist, who led Iraq's drive to cultivate and weaponize deadly anthrax. Nicknamed "Dr. Germ," she is believed to hold vast knowledge concerning all of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's development of weapons of mass destruction. Mrs. Ammash has been nicknamed "Mrs. Anthrax" by Western reporters. She has been photographed at Saddam's Cabinet meetings, and at a meeting with his son, Qusai, who ran most of Iraq's military and security organizations. The two women are notable not only for their expertise in weaponizing germs, but also because they both attained senior positions among the male-dominated Ba'ath Party.") (April 11, 2003) (Read More...) Update..."'Mrs. Anthrax' Surrenders to U.S. Military" -May 5, 2003
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