- CAIRO (IslamOnline.net &
News Agencies) -- Appealing to the world community to protect them from
the U.S. aggression aimed at obliterating Iraqâs minds, a number
of Iraqi scientists and university professors sent an SOS e-mail complaining
American occupation forces were threatening their lives.
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- In their e-mail, a copy of which was sent to IslamOnlin.net
Friday, April 11, they said they have dictated their message to a respected
Iraqi scientist in the Netherlands over phone, urging him to circulate
it to all parties concerned to protect them from the arbitrary inquires
and arrests by the U.S. occupation forces.
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- Iraqi scientists asserted that occupation troops demanded
them, particularly physicists, chemists and mathematicians, to hand over
all documents and researches in their possession.
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- The appeal message also said that looting and robberies
were being taken place under the watchful eye of the occupation soldiers.
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- The occupation soldiers, the e-mail added, are transporting
mobs to the scientific institutions, such as Mosul University and different
educational institutions, to destroy scientific research centers and confiscate
all papers and documents to nip in the bud any Iraqi scientific renaissance.
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- The frantic scientists also underlined that some of them
were placed under house arrest and deprived of going to their laboratories
and universities.
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- Some of them were also approached by agents from the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to entice them away to foreign scientific
centers, the message cautioned.
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- The e-mail also noted that occupation forces had drawn
up lists of the names, addresses and researches of the Iraqi scientists
to assist them in their harassment tasks in light of the chaos and anarchy
that sit in after the toppling of the Iraqi regime on April, 9.
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- Reports Claim Scientists Fled To Syria
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- As part of the "concerted campaign" campaign
against Syria, The Washington Times newspaper claimed Saturday, April 12,
that some of Iraq's top scientists have already fled their country and
are in Syria, from where they may seek political safety in France.
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- Quoting U.S. administration officials, the American paper
said there are intelligence reports that Iraqi scientists are seeking safety
in France.
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- According to the daily, U.S. officials declined to put
a number on how many Iraqi weapons scientists have entered Syria, but estimated
it is fewer than 10 at this point.
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- Among those claimed to have made it to Syria are Huda
Salih Mahdi Ammash and Rihab Taha, both top scientists in Iraq's alleged
biological-weapons program, said The Washington Times.
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- The two women are notable not only for their scientific
expertise, but also because they attained senior positions among the male-dominated
Ba'ath Party, the paper said.
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- Mrs. Taha, a British-trained microbiologist, is married
to Iraq's oil minister Amir Rashid Mohammed Ubaydi, on the American most-wanted
list of 55.
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- The Times claims she ran Iraq's biological-warfare program
at a research lab in the town of Hakam beginning in the mid-1980s.
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- Mrs. Taha was not listed, although she is wanted for
questioning.
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- Mrs. Ammash has been photographed at Saddam's Cabinet
meetings, and at a meeting with his son, Qusay, according the U.S. daily.
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- On Friday, April 11, Mrs. Ammash's picture and name were
listed by the U.S. Central Command as one of 55 ãmost-wantedä
Iraqis.
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- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has warned Syria
several times publicly to stop helping the Iraqi regime, asserting that
some Iraqi leaders had fled to the country.
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- http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/12/article02.shtml
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