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A senior Iraqi scientist who had been involved in Iraq's nuclear program was found murdered in Baghdad recently, according to U.S. officials. It was the ninth assassination of Iraqi scientists in the past four months, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service. The last killing was that of Iraqi aeronautical scientist Muhyi Hussein. Majid Hussein Ali, a professor at the College of Science at Baghdad University, was found dead in the Raghibah Khatun. He had been shot twice in the back. The assassins are believed to be former members of Saddam Hussein's government. The killing appears to be part of...

$22 million program would provide employment for former weapons researchers The U.S. State Department earlier this month announced a new program to provide at least $22 million in funding for Iraqi weapons scientists to conduct more peaceful research. The program promises to keep such scientists in Iraq and working on benign projects. Although no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, more than a thousand Ph.D.'s were trained in the black arts of making nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, according to Jonathan Tucker, a bioterror expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Only five of them are still...

JEDDAH, 27 December 2003 — Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, now being grilled by American investigators, has reportedly warned US authorities that he will expose Washington’s “political games” and its behind-the-scene role in the occupation of Kuwait. “Saddam threatened that if they continue to pressure him he will reveal startling facts — about America’s political games with his country — that would shock the whole world,” Al-Watan Arabic daily quoted a high-level European source as saying. The source said Saddam had stopped answering the investigators’ questions and asked them to “give him enough time to clear his mind.” He did...

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM'Saddam's bombmaker' hit in assassination attemptHamza touted as authoritative source on nuclear program Posted: December 25, 20033:13 p.m. Eastern By Sherrie Gossett© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com An Iraqi newspaper – Iraq of Tomorrow – along with Iraqi scientists and members of the expatriate community are reporting that U.S. emissary Khidhir Hamza, has been the victim of a bomb attack. Hamza is often referred to in the West as "Saddam's Bombmaker" after the title of his best-selling autobiography of the same name, that portrayed his rise to leader of the Iraqi nuclear bomb program. A roadside bomb was placed in one of Hamza's...

<p>LIBYA'S Colonel Moammar Khadafy has been secretly developing nuclear-weapons capability and may acquire it before Iraq.</p> <p>Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon disclosed this less-than-heartwarming news in interviews before last week's Rosh Hashanah holiday weekend.</p> <p>But he added, "Israel may be the best-prepared country in the world against the danger of a chemical or biological offensive."</p>

<p>The Bush administration yesterday announced a program to spend up to $22 million over the next two years to find nonmilitary jobs for Iraqi scientists, researchers and technicians who had worked on Saddam Hussein's chemical, nuclear and biological weapons programs.</p>

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of Iraqi scientists who worked on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs for Saddam Hussein will be paid by the United States to work on postwar projects, partly to keep them from selling their deadly expertise elsewhere. The two-year program will begin with a $2 million U.S. contribution, and the United States may provide an additional $20 million later on, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher announced Thursday. It will prevent the scientists "from providing their expertise to countries of concern or groups of concern," he said. The program has some similarities to the U.S. hiring of German...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein's missile program has been meeting with the British military in Iraq and he said he didn't flee to Iran as believed by U.S. weapons hunters. Modher Sadeq-Saba al-Tamimi said in an interview with The Associated Press that he tried several times to reach the American teams searching for weapons of mass destruction. Once, in July, he asked a friend who had already met with American missile experts to set up a meeting for him but the Americans never showed up. Later, he said, his British handlers assured him that...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - All but eight of the dozens of Iraqi scientists who have been questioned or detained as part of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction have been released by U.S. intelligence, officials at the American-run Science Ministry in Baghdad told The Associated Press. Those who remain in custody were involved years ago with former biological programs such as anthrax, suggesting the U.S.-led weapons hunt is holding out hope for success in that area after finding no evidence there were recent chemical or nuclear weapons programs before the war. Many Iraqi scientists in those fields who claimed for...

Iraq Scientists: Lied About Nuke Weapons By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program, and in fact lied to Saddam Hussein about how much progress they were making before U.S.-led attacks shut the operation down for good in 1991, Iraqi physicists say. Before that first Gulf War , the chief of the weapons program resorted to "blatant exaggeration" in telling Iraq' s president how much bomb material was being produced, key scientist Imad Khadduri writes in a new book. Other leading physicists, in Baghdad interviews, said the hope for an Iraqi atomic...

Iraqi Scientists Sought for Questioning By DAFNA LINZER .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The United States will soon be hunting down and interrogating hundreds of Iraqi scientists, technicians and others who were involved in Iraq's clandestine weapons programs, hoping they will help in the search for chemical, biological or nuclear materials. The general running the war in Iraq said Saturday he is certain those responsible - and the weapons they created - will be found. ``There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction,'' Gen. Tommy Franks said at a briefing...

Iraqi Academy of Science forms Leading scientists want to direct research toward the benefit of the Iraqi people | By Stephen Pincock    LONDON—Iraqi scientists are meeting here over the next two days (November 27-28) to begin the process of setting up an independent Academy of Science.The 12 leading researchers, nine of whom still work in Iraq, are holding their inaugural meeting at Britain's Royal Society because of the current security situation in Baghdad. Their goal is to establish a free voice for Iraqi science after decades of abuse under Saddam Hussein."The Iraqi Academy of Science will be an...

<p>The Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein's long-range missile program has fled to neighboring Iran, a country identified as a state sponsor of terrorism with a successful missile program and nuclear ambitions, U.S. officers involved in the weapons hunt told The Associated Press.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi scientist killed in the U.S. invasion and now linked by arms hunter David Kay to possible nuclear weapons research was working on an advanced gun, not atomic bombs, fellow physicists say. They and eyewitnesses also say Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id was killed not when he tried to "run a roadblock," as asserted by Kay, but when a U.S. tank crew blasted his civilian car without warning on an open street. These accounts of the physicist's research and death, provided by 10 Iraqis and supported on key points by U.N. arms inspectors, challenge a core element of...

IRAQI President Saddam Hussein has been hiding weapons of mass destruction from United Nations weapons inspectors, one of his former scientists said. "He has 200 security officers trained for years in concealment tactics," Doctor Hussan Al-Shahristani said in an interview aired Monday on GMA-7's "Unang Balita". Hussan, who described Saddam as the "master of concealment", said "all the major Mosques" in Baghdad served as "command centers and storage areas" for chemical and biological weapons. Even just one milligram of VX, a "very potent" chemical weapon kept by Saddam, was enough to kill a human being, said the scientist who worked...

Spooks dig for secrets of Saddam As Blair prepares to issue his dossier on Iraq's weapons, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy assess the quality of intelligence - and the difficulty of obtaining it Peter Beaumont in London and Ed Vulliamy in New York Sunday September 15, 2002 The Observer He is there at almost every official photo-opportunity with Saddam Hussein, a compact and wiry military officer, his khaki shirt rolled up to his elbows, a beret pulled across his brow. A heavy handlebar moustache hangs over a solid jaw, grey with a permanent five o'clock shadow. The recent prominence of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Iraqi scientists were shot in Baghdad after they talked to the U.S.-led team hunting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and others believe they will be in danger if they collaborate in the search, Washington's chief weapons inspector David Kay said on Friday. Kay, who is directing the WMD hunt as an adviser to the CIA, presented an interim report to U.S. lawmakers this week that said no banned weapons had yet been found. Some Iraqi scientists have sought relocation in the United States out of fear for the safety of their families, and others who...

Saddam's top WMD Scientist... The woman at Saddam's meetings... In Custody. updating the charts now.

IRAQ'S 'DR GERM' CAPTURED Coalition forces have captured one of Iraq's top biological weapons scientists. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, among the top 55 most wanted members of Saddam Hussein's fallen regime, was taken into custody on Sunday, a US Defence Department official said. More follows... Last Updated: 15:31 UK, Monday May 05, 2003

US official says Iraqi scientists helping on arms By Carol Giacomo WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - Captured Iraqi scientists have started cooperating with the United States, giving U.S. officials renewed confidence that there are unconventional weapons in Iraq and they will be found, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on Wednesday. "The people we have found are already leading us to other people as well as to computer files and to documents," he told the National Defense University, an elite school for America's military officers. "With these sources of information, we can say with a high degree of confidence...