U.S. officials: Woman seen with Saddam on Iraqi TV is top biological weapons scientist

Associated Press | March 27, 2003 | JOHN J. LUMPKIN

[HAL9000]

WASHINGTON, Mar 27, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A woman seen on Iraqi television Thursday meeting with Saddam Hussein is believed to be one of the regime's top biological weapons scientists, U.S. intelligence officials said.

The video recording of the meeting, which included other Iraqi leaders, was portrayed as current by Iraqi television, but U.S. officials said it was unclear when it was made.

Intelligence officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the woman among the half-dozen men in the video is Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Baghdad's biological weapons capability in the mid-1990s.

The officials did not know whether to place any significance on Ammash's appearance in the video. Qusai Hussein, Saddam's younger son and probable successor, also appeared on the recording.

Ammash is among a new generation of leaders named by Saddam to leading posts within Iraq's Baath party, intelligence officials said. In May 2001, she was assumed a high-level post with the Baath party regional command.

She was trained by Nassir al-Hindawi, described by U.N. inspectors as the father of Iraq's biological weapons program, the U.S. officials said.

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.

Ammash served as president of Iraqi's microbiological society and as dean at Baghdad University, officials said. She attended college in Texas and received additional training in Europe.

She played a role in organizing Baath activities in Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen, officials said.

Her father was a high-level party revolutionary who was believed to have been ordered killed by Saddam, officials said.

Iraqi television has aired two speeches by Saddam and video of several meetings since the war started. None contain any conclusive proof of when they were recorded.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press, All rights reserved

[martin_fierro]

WHoops, my bad.

[tet68]

That looks like Taha.

[Captiva]

Saddam looked really bad in that B&W video. Not that he ever looked good but... That woman, and most of the men looked scared Shiiteless in that footage.

Nice meeting room they had, BTW. Place looked like some bad hotel conference room.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

thanks!!!

[snooker]

>>>If it's the vid I saw, Saddam looks to have some problems. He didn't use his left arm and hand and it looked like his abdomen was all swollen or casted or bandaged. Something isn't right.

That is it. Sadman looked drugged. He hardly moved. Clearly wasn't as annimated as in other so-called meeting videos where his head bobbed, he moves back and forth and his arms move.

It was on Fox tonight. Wonder how we could get a still frame? I did it with my TIVO, but I can't download the stills.

snooker

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[maestro]

I still say that Saddam is history. These people will do and say anything to have us and the Iraqis' believe he is alive.

He's as good as dead,.....he's in 'Shock n Awe' for sure.

[AHerald]

You go, girl! She's busted through the glass ceiling of the male dominated world of genocidal mass murderers. A role model for the NOW crowd. Now she's an equal opportunity target.

[knak]

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.

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[minmospop]

So now she can play at Augusta?

[tomahawk]

Well, isn't that special?

[martin_fierro]

No, I messed up & posted the wrong homicidal Iraqi scientist's photo.

<|:)~

[rintense]

I saw her too. She had a wrap on her head and miltary clothes on. She had rank patches on her shoulders.

[snooker]

With all the computer experts around here, doesn't anyone have a video capture card so we can do the side by side with sadman?

snooker

[Black Agnes]

I've maintained before. We'll educate anyone, even those that come here to learn how to kill us more efficiently. One day, hopefully, we'll learn. Better to spend the money to educate some inner city or reservation or appalachian child than take the blood money of a wacko country & educate their children to kill us later.

[maestro]

ping

[snooker]

I sent e-mail to fox, maybe more e-mails would help.

snooker

[2rightsleftcoast]

Gee, I'm so glad we could help her with her education!!!
I wonder how many of her cohorts are here right now
on "student visas"

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

" I saw her in that video and wondered, "Who'd she have to kill to sit at that table with Saddam?" " Everybody

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

I know, I thanked you before
I looked at it ;)
Thanks for trying!