Iraqi bio-scientist breaks silence

BBC ^ | February 9, 2003 | Jane Corbin

[IncPen]

Ping

[SpaceBar]

This might be a good thread to start of list of amusing monikers for the women. Let me open with "The Princess of Pathogens".

[Dog]

That evil b!tch would kill us all if she could..

[Maigrey]

Damn. Damn. Damn.....

[Free ThinkerNY]

"Dr Germ." More like Dr. Death.

[CedarDave]

If she has been murdered, it may be one of many. As the end closes in on Saddam, he may be killing his scientists like you would destroy documents. He has his stocks of biological and chemical weapons which they made and has no more use for them -- they provide a link to his deception. I would be afraid for other scientists and their families, whether they talk to inspectors or not. It's a very scary scenario and another reason why we need to act soon.

[GVnana]

One of Iraq's more lovely serpents.

[tet68]

Mengele And Taha MD. LLC.

[Indy Pendance]

We all know the Soviets took their promising young people and made them study exculsively a particular field they excelled at. Sports, medicine, engineering, arts, etc. The had no choice. Why couldn't this same tactic be employed by the Iraqi regime? Isn't it possible, these scientists had to comply with the demands of the government, or risk death not only to them but to their families as well?

[RS_Rider]

How about Mrs. Yuck

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The country needs to be sanatized!

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[VRWC_minion]

Saddam does what we cannot. Looks like there is some wisdom in Bush being patient prior to attacking.

[antivenom]

Same freaking death stare Hitlery has perfected....

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Pearls Before Swine]

As the end closes in on Saddam, he may be killing his scientists like you would destroy documents.

In her case, it would be a good thing. She enjoys this evil work entirely too much.

[honway]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/552346/posts

The country's biological weapons programme is believed to have started in 1974 at Salman Pak in the al-Hazan Ibn al-Hathem Institute, where Dr Taha arrived in 1980.

Five years later, Salman Pak was taken over by the Technical Research Centre and, in 1987, Dr Taha moved her team into the new al-Hakem facility at Salman Pak, where construction of facilities for production of anthrax began, among other agents.

At the time of the Gulf war, Iraq later acknowledged the large-scale production of anthrax spores and to have filled 50 bombs and five missile warheads with anthrax.

However, even in its "full, final and complete declaration" regarding its BW programme, submitted in September 1997, Baghdad continued to present the UN weapons inspectors with a false picture.

Iraq approached Porton Down in Britain for the Ames strain of the anthrax bacterium, said Dr Spertzel. "That [request] was fortunately denied," he said.

Iraq obtained much of its anthrax supply from the American Type Culture Collection. Between 1985 and 1989, it obtained at least 21 strains of anthrax from ATCC and about 15 other class III pathogens, the bacteria that pose an extreme risk to human health.

One strain had a British military pedigree and three of the other strains were listed as coming from the American military's biological warfare programme.

[spunkets]

"UN weapons inspectors discovered munitions filled with these agents dumped in a river"

One of their own rivers too. LOL! Are all the greens going to say something about this? Where's greenpeace?

[honway]

More information about Dr.Taha's work at Salman Pak

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/553598/posts

There is no question in my mind these anthrax attacks in Florida, New York and Washington involve international terrorists," said Richard Spertzel, the expert who headed the U.N. team that exposed Taha.

[honway]

SECRETS OF 'DR. GERM'
New York Post ^ | 10/22/01 | BILL HOFFMANN


Posted on 10/22/2001 2:49 AM CDT by 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.

"There is no question in my mind these anthrax attacks in Florida, New York and Washington involve international terrorists," said Richard Spertzel, the expert who headed the U.N. team that exposed Taha.

"And Iraq is the prime suspect as the supplier."

And Spertzel, now deputy director of a bio-weapons research plant at Fort Derek, Md., believes Taha could be the grande dame behind what's going on now.

The British-trained Taha gained a biology degree at the University of East Anglia after arriving in 1979 to study crop diseases.

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.

In 1995, she admitted that a secret germ factory she set up near Baghdad had made thousands of gallons of anthrax and botulism - enough to kill millions.

Military officials in Washington recently identified Taha as "the leading official in charge of Iraq's biological weapons program."

She is also politically well-connected. Her husband is Iraqi oil minister Amir Rashid Ubaydi, who helps direct the country's relations with the U.N. weapons-inspection teams.

Dr. John Turner, who once taught Taha biology, told London's Sunday Mirror: "It's a great shock, like finding your daughter has gone and done something dreadful."

Saddam has already relocated his chemical weapons factories in anticipation of a possible bombardment by U.S. and British forces.

A senior Western intelligence official said there has been a "mass movement of weapons" to protected "no-go" areas in northern and western Iraq.

"The entire contents of their chemical weapons factories around Baghdad have been moved through the night to specially built bunkers," the official told the Sunday Telegraph.

Saddam's troops dug six 60-foot-deep holes to bury chemical and biological cargo arriving from the capital, he said.

Meanwhile, Iraqi factories that produce missiles and chemical weapons have been relocated to the areas of Baiji and al Safar in the northwest.

"These are heavily protected no-go areas with massive infrastructure. They have everything - bunkers, sophisticated communications systems and living quarters for the military and senior intelligence officers," a source said.

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.

Investigators have been looking with renewed interest at two reported meetings last summer between Mohamed Atta, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 hijackings, and an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague.