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NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. Army says it has reopened an investigation into the suspected bludgeoning death of a key Iraqi scientist in American custody, a chemist who allegedly experimented with poisons on prisoners in the days of Saddam Hussein. Mohammad Munim al-Izmerly, 65, is the only known weapons scientist among at least 96 detainees who have died in U.S. custody in Iraq. Questions have surrounded the death ever since his body was dropped off at a Baghdad hospital in February 2004, two weeks after he died. When it first came to light in press reports last May, the...

IRAQI President Saddam Hussein has been hiding weapons of mass destruction from United Nations weapons inspectors, one of his former scientists said. "He has 200 security officers trained for years in concealment tactics," Doctor Hussan Al-Shahristani said in an interview aired Monday on GMA-7's "Unang Balita". Hussan, who described Saddam as the "master of concealment", said "all the major Mosques" in Baghdad served as "command centers and storage areas" for chemical and biological weapons. Even just one milligram of VX, a "very potent" chemical weapon kept by Saddam, was enough to kill a human being, said the scientist who worked...

Scientist says he hid nuclear materials in Iraq 20 years ago Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 by Webmaster Gazi George, a consultant for Titan in Quincy, says 39 rods of uranium were hidden in a specially built swimming pool By Edward Husar Herald-Whig Staff Writer A former Iraqi scientist says Iraq is hiding materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons. He knows this because he helped hide some of the materials more than 20 years ago. Gazi George, who lives near Detroit, Mich., and does consulting work in Quincy, fled Iraq in 1981 after helping to hide 39...