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To: Wallaby
Supposed to have retired, and Iraq claims to have no weapons of mass destruction.
11 posted on 12/09/2002 3:01:16 PM PST by aristeides
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To: aristeides
Here's a bit more information on where to find her:
Scott Ritter, a former UNSCOM inspector tasked with controlling Iraqi weapon stocks, believes there's no point in trying to find biological or chemical weapons in Iraq. He claims that UN anti-proliferation officials should look instead at just one person, Rihab Taha Al Azoui, the head of the regime's biological weapons program. Called "Mrs. Germ" by her critics, she is married to oil minister gen. Amer Rachid. Aged 48, and born into a wealthy family in Baghdad, she joined the Baath party at early age. After graduating with a chemistry degree, she was given a scholarship by the education ministry to study for a PhD in the United Kingdom. Living in that country for a number of years, she followed courses dispensed by John Turner, her research tutor. A renowned biologist, he suggested she conduct a survey on the damage caused by the fermentation of mushrooms in cereals. She won her PhD with her dissertation in London in 1984 and decided to return to Baghdad. But at the time war was raging between Iraq and Iran and Saddam Hussein's regime was looking for an alternative to nuclear weapons following the Israeli air force's destruction of the Osirak reactor in 1982. Al Azaoui was chosen to head a research team in the biological field. She came into possession of dangerous viruses from the Pasteur Institute in Paris at the ATCC in Atlanta. One of her first facilities, the El Hakam laboratory in the southern suburb of Baghdad, was destroyed by U.S. bombs. Al Azaoui lives at present with her husband and their eight-year-old daughter in the wealthy El Mansour district of Baghdad. The CIA and MI6 take a strong interest in her.
"Rihab Taha Al Azoui (Iraq)," Intelligence Newsletter, WHO'S WHO; N. 401, March 8, 2001.
12 posted on 12/09/2002 3:06:52 PM PST by Wallaby
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