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The Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein's long-range missile program... (flees to Iran)
boston.com ^ | 11/16/03

Posted on 11/16/2003 10:32:02 AM PST by knak

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: altamimi; flee; iran; iraq; iraqiscientists; middleeast; tamimi

1 posted on 11/16/2003 10:32:03 AM PST by knak
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To: knak
We must hunt down these people.
2 posted on 11/16/2003 10:34:22 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: knak
QUAGMIRE alert.
3 posted on 11/16/2003 11:12:38 AM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: knak
Post title was enough. Can't blame him. Just going to where the money is.
4 posted on 11/16/2003 12:19:57 PM PST by tazman3 (Time for Israeli trained, US hit teams to earn their money.)
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To: knak
Pity for Rofsenjoni (spelled wrong) is waning. It looks like he's running the Mullahs, not the other way around. What's going on with Iran?
5 posted on 11/16/2003 12:28:21 PM PST by GOPJ
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To: knak
Political asylum? ;-)
7 posted on 11/16/2003 5:45:32 PM PST by b4its2late (Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Hillary's from hell. Deal with it.)
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To: b4its2late
Coffee klatch with Saddam?
8 posted on 11/16/2003 9:18:03 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Ain't Skeered...)
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To: reagan_fanatic
I guess Iran is closer to having a nuke than we think. They need the delivery system guy now.
I would be game over for Iran if they ever tried a strike at Israel, They have to know it.
9 posted on 11/17/2003 2:07:21 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: knak
Thought to be in his mid-50's, the Czech-educated scientist specialized in missile engines.

I wonder how many of them got their PhDs in America? Plenty, I'm sure.

10 posted on 11/17/2003 2:25:34 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: knak
I thought Iraq wasn't developing weapons...
11 posted on 11/17/2003 5:38:54 PM PST by UCSC Republican (Guns don't kill people. Abortion clinics kill people.)
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