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To: Ilaine who wrote (87379)	3/28/2003 4:52:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Top Saddam advisor is a regular on the DU circuit, almost got interviewed on Oprah - here's the article, click on the links, follow them back, prove it to yourself, do your own research, open your mind: >> The activists tell us that cancer and birth defects are two more of America's contributions to a world of hurt, and one of their favourite sources of information is the much quoted Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, who is often described as "a U.S.-educated environmental biologist at Baghdad University". Ammash has said that, over a 10 year period, the impact on public health in Southern Iraq of depleted uranium shells expended in the the first Gulf War has been "roughly .... equivalent to 100 Chernobyls", producing what a fellow Iraqi scienctist said were "babies born with no eyes, brains, limbs, genitalia; internal organs on the outside, grotesquely deformed little heads and bodies". According to English kindymedia diarist and human shield Jo Wilding, Ammash is so reputable, Oprah Winfrey's producers were setting up interviews with her as late as February. Also according to Wilding, Ammash is "... the voice of Iraqi women ... one of the highest ranking people in the ruling Baath party." Nor is Wilding alone in finding much to admire in the sterling and indominable Dr. Ammash. Bianca Jagger sought her out on a flying red-carpet visit Baghdad in January, when she presented her with a list of real cool suggestions intended to foil the warmongering schemes of that international baby-killer George W. Bush. Just for the record, Ms. Jagger's ideas included being nice to the Kurds, encouraging democratic opposition groups to speak their minds without fear of torture and execution, and assuring U.N. inspectors that all those nasty weapons really had been destroyed. No doubt Ammash was both moved and impressed, as must Saddam himself, who was probably still chuckling at the delightful innocence of the proposals when the first bunker-buster came down his chimney. Another peacenik describes Ammash as "... [an] Iraqi dedicated to staying and helping her people" while Newsweek turned to her in its 16 March edition for a quote lamenting U.S. ignorance of the land it was about to invade. It seems the celebrated "environmental biochemist" has a specialty other than playing tour guide to gullible reporters and credulous peaceniks, however. She's also reported to be one the architects and administrators of Saddam's WOMD programme. Ammash's name surfaced again, along with that of Dr. Rihab Taha, another biochemist and the woman "who was dubbed 'Dr. Germ by inspectors." just hours ago, when the latest purported footage of the resurrected Saddam briefly featured Ammash at a table with other members of the tyrant's inner circle. Her return to the limelight on Iraqi TV would seem to tell us two things -- one unsettling and the other quite cheering. The first is that Ammash's presence at a meeting of Baghdad's war cabinet may be a signal that Saddam prepared to go out in a toxic cloud and take a lot of people with him. This distressing thought is brightened, however, by the amusement to be found in the image of all those Oprahs, Jaggers and peacenik professors treating a woman who has devoted her life to mass murderer as a reasonable and admirable member of civilised society. George Bush is a butcher, according to these folks, but a professional poisoner is "one of the great ladies of Iraq." << bunyip.blogspot.com