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| Iraq |
| Read between the lines... |
| 2003-02-08 |
| This link via Vodkapundit Britain and America are drawing up plans to give Saddam Hussein as little as 48 hours to flee Baghdad or face war, if UN weapons inspectors report this week that the Iraqi dictator is still refusing to disarm fully. Although this is the main thrust of the article, there's mention of Dr. Germ... Dr Blix is holding talks with senior Iraqi officials in Baghdad this weekend. While his inspectors have now been granted private access to a number of Iraqi scientists, one of their prime targets - the English-trained woman who used to run Saddam's lethal biological weapons programme - said that she will refuse to talk to them. In an exclusive interview to be broadcast on BBC1's Panorama at 10.30 tonight, Rihab Taha, who studied at the University of East Anglia and is known as "Dr Germ", said that she does not trust the inspectors. "It is a human right that if you don't want to speak to anyone, no one will oblige you or force you." Speaking of her work on biological weapons, Dr Taha added: "It is our right to have a capability to defend ourselves and to have something as a deterrent." So, she doesn't trust the inspectors. After what happened to the guy who tried to talk to them, I wonder why not? However, in the phrase that I bolded, she's as much admitted that they ARE working on biological weapons. In her mind, helping them is more dangerous to her health than the bugs she's growing... |
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