From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #71 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Tuesday, February 17 1998 Volume 02 : Number 071 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:46:34 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: CAS: WT: Inside Beltway-Chicoms praise Hillary (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:57:14 -0800 From: Ken Chafin To: cas@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: CAS: WT: Inside Beltway-Chicoms praise Hillary Inside the Beltway Political tidbits and other shenanigans from around the nation's capital ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By John McCaslin THE WASHINGTON TIMES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homage to Hillary Now we have a motive for why the Communist Chinese government may have been willing to spend millions of dollars to infiltrate the Clinton White House. What better place to learn the art of propaganda, and from Hillary Rodham Clinton, no less! Veteran Chinese propagandist Yu Quanyu, director of the press and media institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, urged Communist Party officials recently to educate themselves in Western propaganda skills, citing as a blueprint speeches given by the first lady. Mr. Yu's extraordinary observations are quoted in the journal Ideological and Political Work Studies and reprinted in the Far Eastern Economic Review, which made its way to Washington. Mr. Yu, you see, is highly impressed with Mrs. Clinton's speeches before the masses, particularly her addresses to the international women's forum in Beijing in 1995. Each speech, he noted, lasted "15 minutes each time, winning seven or eight rounds of applause each." More astonishing, Mr. Yu noted, was that Mrs. Clinton's addresses contained little or no substance and had no reasoning whatsoever. Instead, he said, they were "aimed at merely winning applause and votes." Mr. Yu said Chinese propagandists, in homage to Mrs. Clinton, must "assimilate certain skills" as demonstrated by the first lady, so as to "engage in a public opinion struggle with our political adversaries." Marshmallow? Embattled Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt invited all department employees to a "campfire meeting" last Friday in the department's main auditorium. Scouts ... er, bureaucrats who attended sat by the imaginary campfire and shared concerns they had about Attorney General Janet Reno's appointment of an independent council to investigate Mr. Babbitt's role in the controversy over a disputed Indian casino application. At least one Interior employee, impressed with the dialogue, was overheard to remark: "We haven't had one of these 'campfire' meetings in a coon's age here at Interior!" Another marshmallow? "Now I know that these are strange times." --Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, opening up last week's "campfire meeting." Donner International Renaming Washington National Airport after Ronald Reagan caused this columnist to recall efforts earlier this decade by then-Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Dwight D. Eisenhower. To support the name change, Mr. Dole argued that many passengers visiting the nation's capital from overseas often confused Dulles with Dallas and wound up instead at the Alamo. This column noted that for this very same reason Attorney General Janet Reno would never have an airport named for her, unless of course it was located in Reno, Nev. We never stopped to think how much our Reno remark would rock Reno. Everybody but the mayor has written to Inside the Beltway, asking what inside information we could pass on with regard to renaming the Reno airport. Hey, we were only kidding! One Reno resident we didn't fool is Richard W. Hawkins. "It's highly unlikely the Reno-Cannon International Airport in this northern part of Nevada will be renamed the Janet Reno or even Reno International Airport," he writes. "There's an appropriate, widespread joke in the Reno area these days that Janet has given Reno a bad name," he adds. "In fact, there's a better chance that the airport would be renamed the Donner Party International Airport before we'd consider any honor to Janet or any other appointee in the Clinton administration." For those who forget the grisly details, the ill-fated Donner party resorted to cannibalism after becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas outside Reno in the winter of 1846-47. 'Til death do us part "When the Clinton scandal broke out I said to my husband, 'James, we both understand the rules of marriage -- right, James?'" --Republican strategist Mary Matalin, referring to Democratic strategist/husband James Carville and the Monica Lewinsky affair, during an appearance on CNBC's "Equal Time." Historic Henry A powerful leader, a bit on the chubby side, but still known as a ladies' man -- President Clinton, right? No, it's England's 16th century monarch King Henry VIII, most famous for going -- sometimes violently -- through six wives. Mr. Clinton, who is known to spend much time pondering his "historic legacy," will be glad to learn that history has judged Henry VIII rather kindly, at least according to one British candy company. Dan Bergen of Alexandria noticed some Clintonesque aspects in this biography of Henry VIII, which came as an insert in a box from English candymaker Dorchester Chocolates: "He was an athlete, scholar and musician, in fact, the perfect Renaissance prince. Henry could be cruel and ruthless. Two of his six wives were beheaded, as were some of his ministers. He squandered the wealth accumulated from the dissolution of the monasteries, he crushed rebellion with savagery, but, in a violent and turbulent age, he was an admired and respected monarch." Great poll ratings, in other words. ========================================================================== This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. 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Parsons" Subject: SADDAM'S SINISTER SCIENTIST: THE DEADLIEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD! Many thanks to Evan Soule for providing this revealing newspaper article. Listen carefully as the Slickster makes his nation-wide call to war speech on 2/17/98, to see if he mentions what Dr. Rihab Taha has developed for use against Israel and the USA. Is it worth the horrible deaths of possibly millions of innocent civilians, just to get the minds of the sheeple off of Monica Lewinsky and Zippergate? It has been revealed that Iraq already has hit teams in the USA prepared to release the deadly weapons that Dr. Rihab Taha has developed. X-Sender: josephnewman@mail.earthlink.net Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:10:49 -0600 To: josephnewman@earthlink.net (Evan Soule) From: josephnewman@earthlink.net (Evan Soule) Subject: DR. RIHAB TAHA: The Deadly Dr. Germ FRONT PAGE STORY From the HERALD SUN SUNDAY - Melbourne, Australia February 15, 1998 ___________________________________________________________ *********************************************************** *********************************************************** *********************************************************** SADDAM'S SINISTER SCIENTIST: THE DEADLIEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD! ***** DR. RIHAB TAHA ***** ***** DR. RIHAB TAHA ***** ***** DR. RIHAB TAHA ***** --- Special Report by Ron Laytner --- SHE is the mother of a baby daughter, but makes unspeakable potions to kill people by the tens of thousands. She is the mousy British-trained scientist who is now Saddam Hussein's heroine in the chemical weapons laboratories of Iraq. Meet the woman they call Dr. Germ --- mastermind of the Doomsday arsenal that contains enough chemicals and viruses to kill everyone on Earth twice over. Dr. Rihab Taha, 42, has overseen the creation of 10 billion doses of the bugs responsible for anthrax, botulism, ebola, and bubonic plague. If her deadly weapons were released on battlefields or against the world's major cities, she could go down in history as the world's deadliest woman. Meanwhile, Pentagon chief General Henry Shelton revealed a plan to blast Iraq with cruise missiles and bombs. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ SHE has been dubbed Dr. Germ --- the most dangerous woman to walk the Earth, and already this British-trained scientist has created enough biological weapons to kill everyone on EARTH twice over. Yet, in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, she is a heroine, who, only two weeks ago, was publicly applauded by the dictator at Baghdad's Military Industrial Commission as he handed her a glittering prize for her deadly work. In a neat, blue suit and sober jewellery, Dr. Rihab Taha, 42 and at the centre of the growing Iraqi crisis, smiled her thanks before driving home to look after her baby daughter in a smart and very secure Baghdad townhouse. For this mother, with mousy hair now flecked with grey, is the person who persuaded Saddam Hussein to launch his controversial germ warfare program back in the 1980. And it is her lethal handiwork, started on her return from the University of East Anglia, in the cathedral town of Norwich, England, in 1984, and kept secret by Saddam Hussein, that has sparked the latest crisis. In an extraordinary decade, Dr. Germ has overseen the creation of 10 billion killer doses of toxins, including botulinum, a vicious food poisoning bug that provokes a swollen tongue, frothing mouth and dizziness before a victim's rapid death. She is suspected of producing a host of lethal viruses and bacteria that are stockpiled secretly in Iraq in bunkers and factories known only to Saddam's henchmen. Most incredibly, she has masterminded the testing of anthrax, which dissolves the kidneys, liver, and lungs leading to death within two days, on rats, mice, dogs, sheep, and donkeys. Almost certainly, humans too, say United Nations inspectors. Videos seized by them two years ago showed the animals, often placed in sealed plastic boxes, writhing in agony as the biological agents took their toll. Today it seems certain that under Dr. Germ's direction, research also was done into haemorrhagic conjunctivitis, which temporarily blinds and makes eyes bleed, plus another ghastly virus leading to lethal diarrhoea in children. Dr. Germ became an expert on camel pox, which provokes bleeding skin lesions, and a rare African fever. As the scale of Dr. Germ's foul deeds come to light, those who knew her in Norwich --- where for five years she studied plant toxins and would return from holidays in Iraq with gift-wrapped boxes of dates for fellow students - --- have expressed surprise at the notorious rise of a "very ordinary" scientist and nondescript girl, who loved watching the BBC in her spare time. "She talked about Saddam Hussein as though he was someone she admired, almost on fatherly terms," admitted a student who befriended Dr. Germ at the time. "But she was difficult to get to know. She and two other Iraqi girls would keep up to date on the Iran-Iraqi conflict by staying glued to the TV." Today her professors speculate that Dr. Rihab Taha may have been sent to the West specifically to gain expert knowledge on biological weaponry for the regime back home. Or, they wonder, did her skills just fit neatly into an emerging master plan when she returned to her native Iraq? "It's like your daughter has gone and done something dreadful. Finding out what Taha does now has been a great shock to me," says Dr. John Turner, the head of the East Anglia University's biology department and her teacher for four years. "Of all the students I have had, Taha is the last person I would suspect of doing something like this. She kept quiet and was in the background. Although she was well liked, she was not a gifted student, but very hard-working. I am flabbergasted." Even the first UN inspector to meet Dr. Germ, though aware that she played a key role, was unprepared for the woman he faced; a woman so nervous that she even shyly sought his opinion of her work as a scientist. "She was an unassuming individual to look at her. No one would suspect that she was the head fo the country's germ warfare program," admits Dr. David Huxsoll, who headed the initial UN weapon inspection team in 1991. (He was the former commander of the U.S. Army's Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Dietrick Maryland. After heading the UN inspection team in 1991, he returned in 1994. He is now dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University.) UN inspectors have, at last, discovered the truth about the sinister work of Dr. Germ --- and other Iraqi scientists, many of whom were educated at British universities --- despite her own desperate attempts at a cover up. After seven years of sleuthing, the believe Dr. Germ's Doomsday arsenal of biological weaponry may have been used on human guinea pigs. Recent Israeli intelligence reports point to such atrocities at Salman Park, a military complex 80km south of Baghdad. According to Israeli military sources, it was here --- from safely behind a glass screen --- that Iraqi scientists watched as Iranian prisoners of war were strapped to beds in an underground room. On the ceiling was a powerful spraygun aimed at the terrified men beneath. On occasions, the spraygun poured out anthrax bacteria which penetrates the skin and lungs, leaving the prisoners dying in agony from internal haemorrhaging. At other times, it contained toxins for use in chemical weapons. Again, the victims faced a horrible death. In another test, at an open-air site near Iraq's border with Saudi Arabi, 12 Iranian prisoners were tied to posts while shells loaded with anthrax were blown up by remote control a few metres away. The heads of the doomed dozen were shielded to protect them from shrapnel so the power of the bacteria could be properly monitored. Each died from the disease a couple of days later. It is the horrific possibility of experimentation on humans that is now being explored by the UN inspectors, who were turned away from the Abu Gharib jail, near Baghdad, when they tried to uncover evidence that prisoners had been removed for the obscene testing two years ago. Raymond Zilimskas, a former germ warfare analyst at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the US, met Dr. Germ and her sidekicks on two trips to Iraq. He says her scientific and management prowess was obvious to him. But, today, he wonders if Saddam Hussein is trying to hide the extent of this monster woman's work exactly because it involved experiments on humans. "That's what everybody's asking," Zilimskas said recently. "The speculation is that in Iraq there probably has to be unsavory activities, including unethical experimentation. The real mystery has to do with testing. It is the records of this work that Iraq will go to any lengths to hide." So, despite their undoubted skills, the inspectors -- men and women from 21 countries -- have a hard job. As they search in river beds and tunnels for warheads fitted with deadly germs, in ministries for an odd file that might give them a clue, they concede that they are up against a determined madman in Saddam Hussein. But they are secretly helped by Israel, which has a national interest in preventing Iraq keeping or acquiring weapons of mass destruction. In 1981, Israeli war planes bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear rectors to prevent the country building a nuclear bomb. During the Gulf War, Iraq, in response, aimed Scud missiles at Israel and its extraordinary 50 metre-long "supergun," a one-shot weapon designed to fire chemical or biological payloads, was aimed directly at Tel Aviv. Today, Israeli agents pass information under cover to the UN, which is wary of publicity about the arrangement because of the Arab world's animosity to the Jewish state. Israeli agents never enter the UN, but meeting are set up in safe houses and hotel rooms so vital intelligence can be passed over the help jam Saddam Hussein's war machine. And, in Israel, thousands of citizens line up for biological gas masks, knowing that an attack on Iraq will bring Iraqi bio-missiles to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Since the inspection regime was set up by the UN only weeks after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War in 1991, a fantastic array of Saddam Hussein's instruments of mass destruction has been destroyed or removed, including an assembled supergun, 150 Scud missiles, 30 chemical warheads and 690 tons of chemical weapons. In fact, more Iraqi weaponry has been disarmed in this way that the US and its Allies managed to eliminate by bombing in the 1991 conflict. Yet, despite successes, the UN believes many of the most dangerous weapons of all --- the biological ones --- are hidden by the Iraqis. At one stage, inspectors feared that sizeable quantities of anthrax were being driven around the country in refrigerated trucks by Saddam Hussein's Special Republican Guard so it could not be found. Certainly, when Dr. Germ was first relentlessly questioned about her research she denied everything, bursting into tears, throwing tantrums, and even storming out of the interview room. A deliberate liar, she pretended that all biological agents and munitions had been destroyed in the months after the Gulf War. Dr. Taha also kept secret the existence of a germ warfare factory at al_hakim, 130km west of Baghdad, where lethal research was carried out under her instructions. At the heart of Iraq's biological warfare effort, code-named Project 324 because work started at al_hakam on March 24, 1988, the factory produced gas gangrene, which makes the skin of a human melt and fall off. It was from there, during the Gulf War, that Dr. Germ carried out Saddam Hussein's personal instructions to experiment on loading bombs and missile warheads with deadly toxins. At the secret factory -- which escaped US and British aerial bombardment during Gulf War action, but has been since destroyed by the UN -- the tiny, but determined female scientist discovered that a single missile warhead filled with anthrax could annihilate 30,000 or 40,000 people in 12 hours of hell. A teacup of the toxin is enough to wipe out the inhabitants of a small town. Yet, when Dr. Germ was grilled about the al-Hakam factory, she insisted it was making only chicken feed to help end the hunger of Iraq's people. "Our country now needs fat chickens and lots of eggs, so we are trying to do just that," she claimed. "This project is purely for civilian use." That was, of course, a lie. But her devious work, including a plan to wreak havoc in the West by developing an antibiotic-resistant chemical, earned Dr. Taha friends in high places. On one notable occasion, as a UN inspector began to list the biological agents she had developed, he reported she started to cry hysterically. Suddenly, General Amer Kashid, Iraqi official in charge of liaising with the UN inspections team --- and a mastermind of the attacks on Kuwait, Israel, and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf conflict --- stepped in. He called the inspector a bad scientist for accusing Dr. Germ of misdeeds. Soon after, the inspectors discovered the general was in love with Dr. Taha and had sired her daughter. He had quietly married her in 1994, despite still being married to another woman, the mother of his six-year-old child. However, the real breakthrough came when Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, General Hussein Kamal -- himself a super weapons expert -- defected from Iraq to Jordan in 1995 and told the world about Dr. Germ. He said her charming ways and pleasant manner were nothing but a sham. General Kamal's testimony about Taha and Iraq's bio-weapons preparations came to an end when he was personally convinced by Saddam Hussein to return to Iraq, where he was immediately killed. But he gave the first open knowledge of Saddam's monstrous woman scientist who had worked on killer viruses and forms of germ warfare --- a woman who was completely unknown before. This was the woman who had a child at home, but was preparing potions to kill other mothers' babies. Faced with the damning new evidence, Dr. Taha confessed. "She suddenly had no hesitation about presenting herself as the brains behind the biological weapon-building in Iraq," one UN weapons inspector commented. "She is proud of her country and proud of her work. I don't think she had a qualm in the world about her misdeeds." Today, Dr. Rihab Taha must be high on the target list of the West's secret services. Perhaps higher, even, than Saddam Hussein. She also may be a war criminal for violating the international laws on germ warfare. But in Iraq she is upheld as a shining example of womanhood by Saddam Hussein, who gave her the prize for scientific achievement so very recently. "It was obviously for her work in biological weaponry," a UN scientist observed the other day. "Dr. Germ has never achieved anything else during the whole of her career to date. But she may go down in history as the most deadly woman of all time." - --1915762710-2023195212-887729095=:8602-- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:11:25 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: CAS: HS: Dr. Germ (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:37:16 -0600 (CST) From: pwatson@utdallas.edu To: cas@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: CAS: HS: Dr. Germ Now don't you feel safe with Clinton and Clinton in charge: Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:10:49 -0600 From: josephnewman@earthlink.net (Evan Soule) Subject: DR. RIHAB TAHA: The Deadly Dr. Germ FRONT PAGE STORY From the HERALD SUN SUNDAY - Melbourne, Australia February 15, 1998 ___________________________________________________________ *********************************************************** *********************************************************** *********************************************************** SADDAM'S SINISTER SCIENTIST: THE DEADLIEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD! ***** DR. RIHAB TAHA ***** ***** DR. RIHAB TAHA ***** ***** DR. RIHAB TAHA ***** --- Special Report by Ron Laytner --- SHE is the mother of a baby daughter, but makes unspeakable potions to kill people by the tens of thousands. She is the mousy British-trained scientist who is now Saddam Hussein's heroine in the chemical weapons laboratories of Iraq. Meet the woman they call Dr. Germ --- mastermind of the Doomsday arsenal that contains enough chemicals and viruses to kill everyone on Earth twice over. Dr. Rihab Taha, 42, has overseen the creation of 10 billion doses of the bugs responsible for anthrax, botulism, ebola, and bubonic plague. If her deadly weapons were released on battlefields or against the world's major cities, she could go down in history as the world's deadliest woman. Meanwhile, Pentagon chief General Henry Shelton revealed a plan to blast Iraq with cruise missiles and bombs. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ SHE has been dubbed Dr. Germ --- the most dangerous woman to walk the Earth, and already this British-trained scientist has created enough biological weapons to kill everyone on EARTH twice over. Yet, in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, she is a heroine, who, only two weeks ago, was publicly applauded by the dictator at Baghdad's Military Industrial Commission as he handed her a glittering prize for her deadly work. In a neat, blue suit and sober jewellery, Dr. Rihab Taha, 42 and at the centre of the growing Iraqi crisis, smiled her thanks before driving home to look after her baby daughter in a smart and very secure Baghdad townhouse. For this mother, with mousy hair now flecked with grey, is the person who persuaded Saddam Hussein to launch his controversial germ warfare program back in the 1980. And it is her lethal handiwork, started on her return from the University of East Anglia, in the cathedral town of Norwich, England, in 1984, and kept secret by Saddam Hussein, that has sparked the latest crisis. In an extraordinary decade, Dr. Germ has overseen the creation of 10 billion killer doses of toxins, including botulinum, a vicious food poisoning bug that provokes a swollen tongue, frothing mouth and dizziness before a victim's rapid death. She is suspected of producing a host of lethal viruses and bacteria that are stockpiled secretly in Iraq in bunkers and factories known only to Saddam's henchmen. Most incredibly, she has masterminded the testing of anthrax, which dissolves the kidneys, liver, and lungs leading to death within two days, on rats, mice, dogs, sheep, and donkeys. Almost certainly, humans too, say United Nations inspectors. Videos seized by them two years ago showed the animals, often placed in sealed plastic boxes, writhing in agony as the biological agents took their toll. Today it seems certain that under Dr. Germ's direction, research also was done into haemorrhagic conjunctivitis, which temporarily blinds and makes eyes bleed, plus another ghastly virus leading to lethal diarrhoea in children. Dr. Germ became an expert on camel pox, which provokes bleeding skin lesions, and a rare African fever. As the scale of Dr. Germ's foul deeds come to light, those who knew her in Norwich --- where for five years she studied plant toxins and would return from holidays in Iraq with gift-wrapped boxes of dates for fellow students - --- have expressed surprise at the notorious rise of a "very ordinary" scientist and nondescript girl, who loved watching the BBC in her spare time. "She talked about Saddam Hussein as though he was someone she admired, almost on fatherly terms," admitted a student who befriended Dr. Germ at the time. "But she was difficult to get to know. She and two other Iraqi girls would keep up to date on the Iran-Iraqi conflict by staying glued to the TV." Today her professors speculate that Dr. Rihab Taha may have been sent to the West specifically to gain expert knowledge on biological weaponry for the regime back home. Or, they wonder, did her skills just fit neatly into an emerging master plan when she returned to her native Iraq? "It's like your daughter has gone and done something dreadful. Finding out what Taha does now has been a great shock to me," says Dr. John Turner, the head of the East Anglia University's biology department and her teacher for four years. "Of all the students I have had, Taha is the last person I would suspect of doing something like this. She kept quiet and was in the background. Although she was well liked, she was not a gifted student, but very hard-working. I am flabbergasted." Even the first UN inspector to meet Dr. Germ, though aware that she played a key role, was unprepared for the woman he faced; a woman so nervous that she even shyly sought his opinion of her work as a scientist. "She was an unassuming individual to look at her. No one would suspect that she was the head fo the country's germ warfare program," admits Dr. David Huxsoll, who headed the initial UN weapon inspection team in 1991. (He was the former commander of the U.S. Army's Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Dietrick Maryland. After heading the UN inspection team in 1991, he returned in 1994. He is now dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University.) UN inspectors have, at last, discovered the truth about the sinister work of Dr. Germ --- and other Iraqi scientists, many of whom were educated at British universities --- despite her own desperate attempts at a cover up. After seven years of sleuthing, the believe Dr. Germ's Doomsday arsenal of biological weaponry may have been used on human guinea pigs. Recent Israeli intelligence reports point to such atrocities at Salman Park, a military complex 80km south of Baghdad. According to Israeli military sources, it was here --- from safely behind a glass screen --- that Iraqi scientists watched as Iranian prisoners of war were strapped to beds in an underground room. On the ceiling was a powerful spraygun aimed at the terrified men beneath. On occasions, the spraygun poured out anthrax bacteria which penetrates the skin and lungs, leaving the prisoners dying in agony from internal haemorrhaging. At other times, it contained toxins for use in chemical weapons. Again, the victims faced a horrible death. In another test, at an open-air site near Iraq's border with Saudi Arabi, 12 Iranian prisoners were tied to posts while shells loaded with anthrax were blown up by remote control a few metres away. The heads of the doomed dozen were shielded to protect them from shrapnel so the power of the bacteria could be properly monitored. Each died from the disease a couple of days later. It is the horrific possibility of experimentation on humans that is now being explored by the UN inspectors, who were turned away from the Abu Gharib jail, near Baghdad, when they tried to uncover evidence that prisoners had been removed for the obscene testing two years ago. Raymond Zilimskas, a former germ warfare analyst at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the US, met Dr. Germ and her sidekicks on two trips to Iraq. He says her scientific and management prowess was obvious to him. But, today, he wonders if Saddam Hussein is trying to hide the extent of this monster woman's work exactly because it involved experiments on humans. "That's what everybody's asking," Zilimskas said recently. "The speculation is that in Iraq there probably has to be unsavory activities, including unethical experimentation. The real mystery has to do with testing. It is the records of this work that Iraq will go to any lengths to hide." So, despite their undoubted skills, the inspectors -- men and women from 21 countries -- have a hard job. As they search in river beds and tunnels for warheads fitted with deadly germs, in ministries for an odd file that might give them a clue, they concede that they are up against a determined madman in Saddam Hussein. But they are secretly helped by Israel, which has a national interest in preventing Iraq keeping or acquiring weapons of mass destruction. In 1981, Israeli war planes bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear rectors to prevent the country building a nuclear bomb. During the Gulf War, Iraq, in response, aimed Scud missiles at Israel and its extraordinary 50 metre-long "supergun," a one-shot weapon designed to fire chemical or biological payloads, was aimed directly at Tel Aviv. Today, Israeli agents pass information under cover to the UN, which is wary of publicity about the arrangement because of the Arab world's animosity to the Jewish state. Israeli agents never enter the UN, but meeting are set up in safe houses and hotel rooms so vital intelligence can be passed over the help jam Saddam Hussein's war machine. And, in Israel, thousands of citizens line up for biological gas masks, knowing that an attack on Iraq will bring Iraqi bio-missiles to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Since the inspection regime was set up by the UN only weeks after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War in 1991, a fantastic array of Saddam Hussein's instruments of mass destruction has been destroyed or removed, including an assembled supergun, 150 Scud missiles, 30 chemical warheads and 690 tons of chemical weapons. In fact, more Iraqi weaponry has been disarmed in this way that the US and its Allies managed to eliminate by bombing in the 1991 conflict. Yet, despite successes, the UN believes many of the most dangerous weapons of all --- the biological ones --- are hidden by the Iraqis. At one stage, inspectors feared that sizeable quantities of anthrax were being driven around the country in refrigerated trucks by Saddam Hussein's Special Republican Guard so it could not be found. Certainly, when Dr. Germ was first relentlessly questioned about her research she denied everything, bursting into tears, throwing tantrums, and even storming out of the interview room. A deliberate liar, she pretended that all biological agents and munitions had been destroyed in the months after the Gulf War. Dr. Taha also kept secret the existence of a germ warfare factory at al_hakim, 130km west of Baghdad, where lethal research was carried out under her instructions. At the heart of Iraq's biological warfare effort, code-named Project 324 because work started at al_hakam on March 24, 1988, the factory produced gas gangrene, which makes the skin of a human melt and fall off. It was from there, during the Gulf War, that Dr. Germ carried out Saddam Hussein's personal instructions to experiment on loading bombs and missile warheads with deadly toxins. At the secret factory -- which escaped US and British aerial bombardment during Gulf War action, but has been since destroyed by the UN -- the tiny, but determined female scientist discovered that a single missile warhead filled with anthrax could annihilate 30,000 or 40,000 people in 12 hours of hell. A teacup of the toxin is enough to wipe out the inhabitants of a small town. Yet, when Dr. Germ was grilled about the al-Hakam factory, she insisted it was making only chicken feed to help end the hunger of Iraq's people. "Our country now needs fat chickens and lots of eggs, so we are trying to do just that," she claimed. "This project is purely for civilian use." That was, of course, a lie. But her devious work, including a plan to wreak havoc in the West by developing an antibiotic-resistant chemical, earned Dr. Taha friends in high places. On one notable occasion, as a UN inspector began to list the biological agents she had developed, he reported she started to cry hysterically. Suddenly, General Amer Kashid, Iraqi official in charge of liaising with the UN inspections team --- and a mastermind of the attacks on Kuwait, Israel, and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf conflict --- stepped in. He called the inspector a bad scientist for accusing Dr. Germ of misdeeds. Soon after, the inspectors discovered the general was in love with Dr. Taha and had sired her daughter. He had quietly married her in 1994, despite still being married to another woman, the mother of his six-year-old child. However, the real breakthrough came when Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, General Hussein Kamal -- himself a super weapons expert -- defected from Iraq to Jordan in 1995 and told the world about Dr. Germ. He said her charming ways and pleasant manner were nothing but a sham. General Kamal's testimony about Taha and Iraq's bio-weapons preparations came to an end when he was personally convinced by Saddam Hussein to return to Iraq, where he was immediately killed. But he gave the first open knowledge of Saddam's monstrous woman scientist who had worked on killer viruses and forms of germ warfare --- a woman who was completely unknown before. This was the woman who had a child at home, but was preparing potions to kill other mothers' babies. Faced with the damning new evidence, Dr. Taha confessed. "She suddenly had no hesitation about presenting herself as the brains behind the biological weapon-building in Iraq," one UN weapons inspector commented. "She is proud of her country and proud of her work. I don't think she had a qualm in the world about her misdeeds." Today, Dr. Rihab Taha must be high on the target list of the West's secret services. Perhaps higher, even, than Saddam Hussein. She also may be a war criminal for violating the international laws on germ warfare. But in Iraq she is upheld as a shining example of womanhood by Saddam Hussein, who gave her the prize for scientific achievement so very recently. "It was obviously for her work in biological weaponry," a UN scientist observed the other day. "Dr. Germ has never achieved anything else during the whole of her career to date. But she may go down in history as the most deadly woman of all time." ========================================================================== This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. In the message body put: unsubscribe cas - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:56:45 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Hamas Vows to Attack Israel if US Strikes Iraq - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Reuters New Media Tuesday February 17 4:59 PM EST Hamas Vows to Attack Israel if US Strikes Iraq By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - The armed wing of the militant Moslem group Hamas has vowed to carry out attacks against Israel if the United States takes military action against Iraq. "We will not stand with our hands tied if the Iraqi people and their children or any Arab or Moslem people are subjected to U.S. military attacks and we will answer this in our special way by hitting the Zionist depth and its monstrous entity," the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement made available to Reuters on Tuesday. "We consider this a continuation of our holy struggle against the Zionist enemy. This is serious, not a joke, and you will realize the truth of this soon," the statement said. Hamas, which violently opposes peace deals between Palestinians and Israel, has carried out several suicide bombings that have killed scores of Israelis. The United States and Britain have threatened to strike Iraq if it does not give U.N. weapons inspectors access to sites suspected of containing materials for weapons of mass destruction. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Palestinian Authority officials have urged Iraq to comply with U.N. resolutions on weapons inspections but have also said they opposed a U.S. strike on Baghdad. "The United States draws out its foreign policy with the mind-set of a cowboy to defend its so-called strategic interests. It has no principles, morals, or any humanitarian considerations," the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades said. "Proof of this is its position on Iraq and its continued sponsorship of the Zionist enemy and its monstrous entity at the expense of our Palestinian rights and our pure land. We hope Arab and Moslem people will awaken in the face of U.S. terrorism," the statement added. Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said he had not heard of the statement from the group's military wing but it would be natural for Arabs to be angry if the United States attacked Iraq. "The (Hamas) political wing rejects a U.S. attack on Iraq but we don't decide the plans of the military wing and we don't know what it is planning," he told Reuters. "People have feelings and the Palestinian and Arab people are boiling at what is happening in Iraq and it would be natural if there was a suitable reaction to U.S. injustice," he said. Yassin urged Arabs to boycott U.S. goods, saying "if we can't fight it (the United States) militarily, then let's fight it economically." _________________________________________________________________ - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #71 ************************