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Tuesday, May 13, 2003Documents seized by United Nations weapons inspectors after the 1991 Gulf war provide a chilling picture of the thoroughness and dedication of her work. In exhaustive reports packed with data, Dr Taha described the successful test-firing of 122mm missiles armed with anthrax-laden warheads into fields full of animals, concluding at one point: "Eighty per cent of the experimental animals have perished." In the late 1980s Dr Taha's weapons were allegedly tested on human beings, first on prisoners taken during the Iran-Iraq War, who were tied to poles in the desert and sprayed with a variety of lethal agents, and later on political detainees at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. What kind of a person devotes her life to this sort of work? One Unscom member who questioned her in the mid-1990s said that she began to cry and wail when put under pressure. “She was great on theatrics,” he said. “None of us liked her. We could find no redeeming features about her.” I guess not. posted by Sydney on 5/13/2003 07:05:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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