Posted on 05/07/2003 3:29:17 AM PDT by fightinJAG
SYRIA EXPELS LEADING IRAQI WMD SCIENTIST
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has captured one of the directors of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs who had been expelled by Syria.
U.S. officials said coalition forces arrested the head of Iraq's biological weapons program. They identified the scientist as Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, known as Mrs. Anthrax, No. 53 on the U.S. list of 55 most wanted Iraqis.
Ms. Ammash, whose husband, a senior aide to President Saddam Hussein, was captured last week, escaped to Syria in early April, officials said. They said her arrest came after strong U.S. pressure on Damascus to surrender Iraqi WMD scientists.
"I can't say how she was captured," a U.S. official said on Monday. "What I can say is that we believe she was one of hundreds of senior members of the Saddam regime and their families who escaped to Syria last month."
I had not seen any reports of how extensive the flight of regime officials to Syria was. Apparently there is a whole boatload of these jokers in the Syrian badlands.
Perhaps, but don't think the dialogues being reported are the only ones. I'll bet a month's pay that behind closed doors, the gloves are off and "frank" doesn't even begin to describe the conversations. You don't think Pakistan was so cooperative during Afghanistan because they wanted to be nice, do you?
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