SECRETS OF 'DR. GERM'

New York Post ^ | 10/22/01 | BILL HOFFMANN

[kattracks]

October 22, 2001 -- A cunning woman scientist who heads Saddam Hussein's bio-terrorism team may be the mastermind behind the world's anthrax scare, a leading American germ warfare expert says.

Rihab Taha, 45, is so notorious that United Nations weapons inspectors have nicknamed her "Dr. Germ" for deadly experiments she conducted.

[Sabertooth]

bio ping

[Clinton's a rapist]

Warm up those nukes.

[Exigence]

Bump

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Bump!

[Fulbright]

There are going to be a lot of people in DC are going to be positively desperate to find their "Dr. Germ" working in a cabin in East Fishpack, Montana rather than in Salman Pak, Iraq.

[Sabertooth]

bump

[MadIvan]

Someone who develops a germ specifically targeting babies has no right to live, in my view. Now that the cuffs are off the CIA, Bush should order a bullet be put in the back of her head too.

Regards, Ivan

FreeBritannia.co.uk

[Jim Noble]

>> a bio-weapons research plant at Fort Derek, Md<<

It's Fort Detrick.

[vrwc54]

BTTT

[nevergore]

"Someone who develops a germ specifically targeting babies has no right to live"

Agreed!

NeverGore

[ohioman]

But remember, Scott Ritter says that Iraq has no weapons capability of any kind. (extreme sarcasm implied)

[MadIvan]

But remember, Scott Ritter says that Iraq has no weapons capability of any kind.

You can make chemical and biological weapons in absurdly small spaces. Did Mr. Ritter check every garden shed in Iraq before speaking out of his arse?

Regards, Ivan

[Victoria Delsoul]

U.N. inspectors believe Taha, who has a 5-year- old daughter, tests her poisons on human guinea pigs.

Over the years, Iraq has produced great quantities of liquid anthrax for deployment in missile warheads, U.N. inspectors say, and Iraqi agents are known to meet periodically with bin Laden operatives.

I think it's time to pay them a "visit."

[PBRSTREETGANG]

This scientist is certainly a low-caliber individual.

I can only hope that the next thing that goes through her mind is something high-calibered.

[eFudd]

A cunning woman scientist who heads Saddam Hussein's bio-terrorism team

Isn't this the smartest woman in the world?

Isn't this the woman who ran for senator in New York?

[Snow Bunny]

I remember reading about this woman when we were in the Gulf war and later when our team was not allowed into Saddam's places to check things out. It keeps coming back to her everytime. VERY Interesting for sure. Thanks so much for the ping.

[lelio]

Rush is talking about this right now, in case there are some ditto heads out there.

[mrustow]

Thanks for the flag, Sabe.

But when she returned to Iraq, Taha led a team that made germs causing victims' eyes to bleed and produced a bacteria that gave babies a deadly diarrhea.

U.N. inspectors believe Taha, who has a 5-year- old daughter, tests her poisons on human guinea pigs.

Kills babies? Why, she's a bloomin' feminist icon!

[Alamo-Girl]

Dr. Germ, Iraq, bin Laden research links for the discussion:

Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs - U.S. Government White Paper, released February 13, 1998

The New York Times -February 26, 1998 - How Iraq's Biological Weapons Program Came to Light

Sharing Efforts in Weapons? (bin Laden and Iraq) By David Phinney 8/98

[Re: Impeachment Eve bombing] Wall Street Journal 12/28/98 Scott Ritter ".Operation Desert Fox, the 70-hour aerial assault on Iraq, was a masterpiece of precision bombing… But Desert Fox also highlighted the reality that smart bombs cannot make up for failed policies. In fact, the military strike has achieved the opposite of its intended effect. Rather than supporting the work of the weapons inspectors of the United Nations Special Commission (Unscom) by degrading Saddam Hussein's ability to build long-range ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction, the bombing has most likely destroyed any chance Unscom had to do its job effectively..Based upon my intimate knowledge of the Iraqi prohibited weapons programs and the means Baghdad has used to conceal them from the Unscom inspectors, this limited strike accomplished nothing in terms of degrading Iraq's ability to continue hiding and safeguarding its weapons of mass destruction. Likewise, the industrial base for weapons manufacturing appears to have been affected minimally at best..."

The Guardian 10/19/00 Julian Borger in Washington “…..Investigators in Yemen yesterday uncovered evidence suggesting the bomb attack on the warship USS Cole had been a meticulously organised conspiracy, which a leading US terrorism expert said may have been the first joint operation between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein…”

Middle East Newsline 10/18/00 “… International inspectors have found and destroyed a system ordered by Iraq for its secret nuclear weapons program. The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report that despite the eviction of United Nations weapons inspectors in December 1998 the agency has managed to foil Iraqi plans to build nuclear weapons. The IAEA said that in May the agency found a filament-winding machine ordered by Iraq that had arrived in Jordan. The agency said the system was part of Baghdad's clandestine uranium enrichment program. The machine and its spare parts were destroyed, the agency said..”

Reuters 11/2/00 Tabassum Zakaria “…Iraq has designed a crude nuclear bomb and has the equipment to build it but lacks the necessary uranium or other fissile material, a former Iraqi nuclear physicist who defected said on Thursday. "I would say (a bomb of) a few kilotons can be done in Iraq now," said Khidhir Hamza, who once headed Iraq's nuclear weapons design program. The bomb would probably be too bulky to be fired on a missile, but could be transported by an airplane and dropped on a target, he said...”

Times of London 12/23/00 "... SADDAM HUSSEIN has ordered his scientists to resume work on a programme aimed at making a nuclear bomb, a defector warned yesterday. The Iraqi dictator, whose efforts to make atomic weapons were thwarted by United Nations inspectors after the Gulf war in 1991, revived the plans two years ago, the defector said. Scientists who had previously worked on the weapons programme were made to return to their duties in August 1998, four months before Saddam expelled the inspectors.... According to Salman Yassin Zweir, a design engineer who was employed by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission for 13 years, the instruction came in a document marked "top secret" which identified a research centre on Al-Jadriya Street, Baghdad, as the headqarters of the new operation. .....Zweir was arrested and tortured after refusing to go back to the programme. He escaped to Jordan, where he spoke for the first time last week after being reunited with his wife, who was also tortured, and their two sons, aged seven and six...."

worldnetdaily.com 2/3/01 Reuters “…..Iraq produced the Brucella bacteria as part of its weapons programme, although Baghdad denied it and United Nations reports have never mentioned it, a former UN biological weapons inspector said yesterday. "They did have scientists who specialized in Brucella, and they did have media imported that ... would be suitable for growing Brucella," said Rod Barton, a former biological weapons inspector with the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM)..”