Saddam Hussein's adviser studied at MU: Mrs. Anthrax from MIZZOU (Columbia, Missouri)

Columbia, Missouri Daily Tribune ^ | 3.28.2003 | NATE CARLISLE

[rface]

The woman who U.S. intelligence officials say is a top Iraqi biological weapons scientist is a University of Missouri-Columbia alumna who was once issued a summons by campus police for disturbing a speech about Iraq and Iran.

AP photo

U.S. Intelligence officials believe this image
taken from a video on Iraqi television yesterday shows
Huda Salih Mahdi Amash, one of Saddam Hussein's top
biological weapons scientists. Amash received her
doctorate in 1983 from the University of Missouri-
Columbia. Seated next to Amash is Sad-dam's son,
Qusai.

Huda Amash received her doctorate from the MU microbiology area program in 1983, according to campus records. Yesterday, she was seen on Iraqi television with Saddam Hussein. 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 to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity, said that one of those on the video was Amash, who is believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Baghdad’s biological weapons capability in the mid-1990s.

Amash’s 1983 doctoral thesis was titled "The Effects of Selected Free Radical Generating Agents on Metabolic Processes in Bacteria and Mammals." According to the paper, she was born on Sept. 26, 1953, in Baghdad and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Baghdad in 1975.

She came to America "on a scholarship from the Iraqi government to complete her graduate study" and earned a master’s degree from Texas Women’s University. She came to MU in the fall of 1979.

She dedicated the paper to her parents and also thanked her husband, Ahmed, and children, Zena and Sayf Al-Deen.

According to an MU police report, Amash was among a crowd of about 200 who on April 2, 1983, gathered in Allen Auditorium to hear a speaker discuss conflict between Iran and Iraq.

"I remember we were having trouble with a couple in the group," MU Police Maj. Jack Watring said this morning. "I think it was during the Iran-Iraq war and there were a couple in the group who disrupted it."

The report, which spells her name "Hoda Amash," says Amash began yelling and disrupting the speech and was removed from the auditorium. She then was issued a summons.

"Mrs. Hoda Amash was not cooperative," reads the last line of the report.

University payroll records say Amash was a graduate research assistant in the Dalton Research Center from June 1981 until she resigned Oct. 20, 1983. Her annual salary was $5,920.

Over the years, Amash has been cited in many news articles and a few books that mostly discuss the impact sanctions have had on Iraq. But the fact that she attended MU was apparently not common knowledge until NBC and CNN reported it last night. News reports all spell Amash’s name "Ammash," however MU records spell her name with only one ‘m.’ MU also lists her full name as "Huda Saleh Amash" while news reports from CNN and the AP give it as "Huda Saleh Mehdi Ammash."

Richard Finkelstein, who served as chairman of the microbiology department at the MU School of Medicine from 1979 to 1993, said he never heard of Amash until last night.

Finkelstein was quick to say this morning that Amash should not be referred to as having graduated from MU with a microbiology degree.

In the early 1980s, according to Finkelstein, MU had what was called a "microbiology area" where the medical school, the College of Veterinary medicine and other schools and departments contributed to educating students wanting to study microbiology but who couldn’t get accepted to a specific college’s program.

"The department of microbiology prides itself on its graduates," Finkelstein said. "I can’t say the same about the area program.

"If she graduated from the area program, I feel a lot better about" Iraq’s "weapons," Finkelstein added.

-Reporter Josh Flory and the AP contributed to this report.

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Reach Nate Carlisle at (573) 815-1723 or

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[dep]

also, apparently, the iraqi national telephone operator.

dep

[VOA]

Wonder if she's been an advisor to Gephardt...after all he does take advice from
the likes of Barbra Streisand.

Heck, look at the photo in post 12.
This "lady" could be White House Press-Nag Helen Thomas' daughter!
Or maybe grand-daughter.

[VOA]

Saddam Hussein's adviser studied at MU: Mrs. Anthrax from MIZZOU (Columbia, Missouri)

rface, great find and post...it will surely be "grist for the mill" when I talk to
some fellow academics.

With all repsects to the Adm. Moderator, it's breaking news...at least for
anyone concerned about the current conflict and the mess that academia has become.

You ought to call the chapter of the NOW or similar group at U. Missouri and ask
when they will be giving a distinguished alumna award to the only woman in Saddam's inner circle.

Besides the ones Ouday rapes and/or tortures.

[VOA]

Finkelstein was quick to say this morning that Amash should not be referred to
as having graduated from MU with a microbiology degree.

LOL! talk about damage control time!
"The department of microbiology prides itself on its graduates," Finkelstein said.
"I can’t say the same about the area program.

Professor Finkelstein...you are on the way to being persona non grata
at what ever sort of Faculty Center (or club) U. Missouri has!

[VOA]

Finkelstein was quick to say this morning that Amash should not be referred to
as having graduated from MU with a microbiology degree.

LOL! talk about damage control time!
"The department of microbiology prides itself on its graduates," Finkelstein said.
"I can’t say the same about the area program.

Professor Finkelstein...you are on the way to being persona non grata
at what ever sort of Faculty Center (or club) U. Missouri has!

[bluesagewoman]

Thanks for the heads up! Ping you guys!

[knak]

LOL, really! I hadn't noticed that till you said something.

[mtbopfuyn]

My senior year at college there was a large influx of Iranians. Of course I can't speak about all Iranians, but this group stayed to themselves and gave hateful looks if anyone so much as nodded good morning to them. They acted as if they couldn't speak English, yet the professors were required to pass them - so much for the Bell Curve. Now we hear of so many terrorists and the like being educated in America. It's mind boggling.

[Volunteer]

This proves my theory that the University of Missouri is evil.(hehehe)
Yes, I am still bitter that they beat SIU by 1-point in the NCAA tournament.

[Risa]

>>The Muslims in Columbia do little to contribute to the American Way. They educate their children in their Mosque. They socialize in their Mosque. They do little to participate in American life except complain when they are targeted in alleged racial discrimination.<<

This is the spirit of the multiculturalist/diversity agenda, a marxist-derived doctrine, promoted in our Universities, k-12 education, government and even American business.

The Multiculuralists idea is that all cultures are good, except the American culture, which is evil and must be dismantled. They encourage cultural separatism and believe group rights are superior to individual rights. And they scream rascism the moment someone questions the agenda.

The Muslims have no intention to assimilate. They're agenda is to convert (or kill, in many cases) the infidel--

For a good example of the dreadful fruits of multiculturalist doctrine, consider the bloody conflagration that was the civil breakdown in former Yugoslavia. The same outcome is in store for us, if we don't stop this movement dead in its tracks. That is, if it's not too late.



risa

[Risa]

>>They acted as if they couldn't speak English, yet the professors were required to pass them ...<<

Who is accountable for this?

The people we elected to make the laws, past U.S. presidents, the Catholic and Lutheran 'charities,'who make a lot of money by immigrating the masses, and the immigration lawyers, who have a powerful lobby and continue to promote more of this stuff.

I was shocked when I investigated the voting histories of various state Senators and House Representatives relative to this issue. While we entrusted them with protecting our culture and heritage, they've been selling it away for over 25 years. (Republicans as well as Democrats.)



risa

[Risa]

She looks a lot older in this pic.

risa

[zip]

Months ago, I read a report that an MU student (Islamic, of course) had purchased the phone used by Osama BL in Afgan.......He apparently disappeared before the FBI could arrest or question him. The last I heard about him, he was still a fugitive (even though he was here on a student visa).

[GulfWar1Vet]

Okay, don't flame the city of Columbia, because this "woman" went to MU...24 yrs ago!!

We need to stop foreigners coming to school here and using their education to support terrorists.

[AlwaysLurking]

Hummm....I was teaching at Mizzou the exact time that she was there....

[Calpernia]

Interesting (just pondering here)

When I was in college, there was an influx of Iraqi Refugees. They, too, stayed to themselves and wouldn't interact. I became friends with one of them I was helping in math (yes, our friendship ended once the need for math help was fulfilled). Again, still odd interactive behavior. None of her friends would speak directly to me. Only through her with their native tongue (obviously they spoke some English, they were in an American College).

I can't figure out if it is a cultural thing or not. Cultural distrust from where and how they were raised? Don't know.

[mtbopfuyn]

When I was in college...

So, you noticed it too. I don't know why it was either. Ours was a small friendly college and at first we thought they were just shy, or different culture, new country, whatever. We tried to reach out to them but they weren't receptive. It was like they resented even being here, a punishment if you will. Strange.

[Calpernia]

I felt and wondered the same! And when I mentioned in my earlier post that my friendship with Paravinea ended after the math help, that wasn not my doing. She just cut me off.

[gaspar]

Listen, my sister went to Mizzou 24 years ago to study chemistry, and I flame the hell out of her miserable Marxist soul!

[the808bass]

All together now...

Old Missouri, fair Missouri
Dear old varsity
Ours are hearts that fondly love thee.
Here's a hail to thee

Proud art thou in classic beauty
Of thy noble past
With thy watchwords "honor" "duty"
Thy high fame shall last.