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Iraq-Jordan
Mossads liquidation campaign in Iraq unveiled
2004-03-04
It's from Tishreen, so you know you can trust it...
Iraqi officials said the Israeli Intelligence Service Mossad supervises the file of Iraqi scientists and is leading a campaign of liquidation against them. ß The chief of the Iraqi Higher Education Ministry's Department of Research and Development Osama Abdul Majeed said in a statement published by the Jordanian As-Sabeel weekly magazine on Tuesday that 15,500 Iraqi scientists, researchers and university professors were dismissed from their jobs in terms of the fierce Israeli campaign. ß Another Iraqi official who refused to be identified said the dismissal plan was drawn up in Tel Aviv with a view to taking revenge against the executive producers of Iraq's scientific programmes. ß Well-informed sources in Baghdad said the Israeli Mossad had asked the US CIA to submit the file of the Iraqi scientists to Mossad agents in Iraq. The sources said the Mossad wants to displace the scientists or assassinate them if they refuse to cooperate. ß
"That's right, Mahmoud. You cooperate, or it's curtains for you!"
"Cooperate on what?"
"We'll think of something!"
The former chief of the International Studies Section at Baghdad University Hussein al-Fitlawi expressed his fear that the Mossad would assassinate those Iraqi scientists lest they should leave for Arab or Islamic states. ß
I wonder why he's the former chief?
Iraqi strategists meantime said the US occupation authority will not allow Iraq to make use of the Iraqi network of scientists even if a pro-American regime is set up in the Arab country.
Posted by:Fred

#1  There are two different issues wrt Iraqi scientists.

One, of course, is that some had substantial connections to WMD programs.

The other is that all of the PhDs earned in the last 15+ years were from within Iraq. Baghdad Univ. had lab equipment and textbooks from the 60s and early 70s, no access to international conferences or journals, no oversight for PhD research from other scholars.

A huge effort is underway to remedy some of that ... excess govt computers have been identified to ship there, textbooks, consulting on programs etc.

But there is, of course, the pride issue.
Posted by: heard about Baghdad U   2004-3-4 8:52:51 AM  

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