Prof. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a microbiologist from Iraq, was invited as a speaker to the World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg in October 2003, but contact with her was not possible because she disappeared after the March/April 2003 war in Iraq.

After months of pressure by an international agency on U.S. Govt. officials in Iraq, her location was finally revealed. She had been arrested after her face appeared on that famous U.S. deck of cards of “wanted” high level Iraqi Baath officials, and has been in prison for months at the Baghdad airport where many are being held. After much pressure, her daughter was allowed to send her a letter, and Prof. Ammash sent a short note back saying she was alright. But others are concerned because she has cancer and needs medicine.

She was accused by U.S. authorities of making anthrax bioweapons for Saadam Hussein prior to the U.S. 2003 invasion. When I spoke with Iraqi scientists and others who know her, I was told that the research she had been working on was never related to anthrax or bioweapons. She had been doing chromosome studies on DU exposure of Iraqis in southern Iraq.

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