Posted on 03/22/2003 1:39:41 PM PST by I'mPeach
Some of the Iraqi scientists and military men involved in Iraq's weapons programs:
-Dr. Rihab Taha, a microbiologist who was in charge of the country's secret biological laboratory which weaponized anthrax. She was nicknamed "Dr. Germ," by inspectors.
-Jaffar al-Jaffar, considered the reluctant father of Iraq's nuclear weapons program. He was jailed and tortured until he agreed in the 1980s to head the program.
-Hazem Ali, a virologist who may have knowledge of attempts to develop small pox or other lethal viruses.
-Mahdi Obeidi, a nuclear physicist who was involved in constructing gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment....
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