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Date Posted: 17:10:06 12/28/02 Sat
Author: Zanthrax
Subject: Iraq War: "the most dangerous woman in the world"
In reply to: Akula 's message, "Iraq War: Venezuela crisis 'may affect war plans'" on 17:07:32 12/28/02 Sat

A female scientist who heads Saddam Hussein's germ warfare program has been named "the most dangerous woman in the world".

Dr. Rihab Taha , also known as Dr. Germ, has made enough biological weapons to kill everyone in the world twiceover, and she may be one of the major reasons why the US is pushing for war with Iraq.

Germ warfare is known as the "poor man's nuke" because of its potential to kill millions without the technical knowledge and vast expense required to create an atomic bomb.

This mission was given the utmost priority by Saddam Hussein, who planned to use these gruesome weapons to take over countries such as Kuwait and to suppress rebellion at home. Saddam even executed four top scientists in the biological weapons program in 1984 because they had not made enough progress.

Dr Germ's topsecret laboratories at Salman Pak became a place of horror where Taha and her team of 100 Iraqi scientists worked to weaponise the most lethal viruses and bacteria known to man. Former chief UN biological weapons inspector Richard Spertzel was quoted in The News as saying Taha made enough lethal germs to kill everyone on earth twice.

According to UN estimates, Taha created 8400 litres of anthrax-enough to kill everyone in the western world-and a host of other terrifying biological weapons. She worked for a decade to create the world's largest stock of biological weapons outside of the former Soviet Union.

She grew 19,000 litres of botulinum, a food poisoning that causes the tongue to swell and suffocates the victim. She cultivated 2000 litres of aflatoxin, a mould that destroys a victim's immune systems and gives them a fastgrowing and fatal cancer.

Taha created gas gangrene which causes the victim's skin to melt and fall away. And this mother of an eight-year-old girl even stockpiled a virus that kills only infants with fatal diarrhoea.

The first round of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq recovered video tapes of Dr Germ's tests on animals but the images of dying creatures in glass boxes writhing in agony were so horrifying that they have never been released. But UN inspectors believe Taha may have been responsible for even greater atrocities.

There is strong evidence Dr Germ tested her biological weapons on humans. According to Israeli military sources, Taha watched safely behind a thick glass screen as her lethal moulds, bacteria and viruses were tested on Iranian prisoners of war strapped to beds in an underground testing facility at Al Hakam.

In another test, a group of 12 Iranian prisoners were tied to posts at an open air test site near Iraq's border with Saudi Arabia. Shells loaded with anthrax were blown up a few yards away. The prisoners were given helmets to protect them from shrapnel so the full effect of the bacteria could be properly monitored. Each died from the disease a couple of days later.

The first UN inspectors also suspect Dr Germ deliberately exposed Iraqi prison populations to certain diseases to gauge their effect as weapons of war.

Among the diseases doomed prisoners were reportedly exposed to were haemorrhagic conjunctivitis, which temporarily blinds the victim and makes their eyes bleed, Crimean Congo Fever, and Camel Pox, a grisly disease that slowly kills the sufferer from blood loss through open skin lesions.

In a world where terrorist organisations are becoming increasingly more organised and are openly seeking a means to trump the New York attack, the US and its allies may feel they can simply no longer ignore the threat of Rihab Taha and her ability to give America's enemies a poor man's nuke.

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Re: Iraq War: "the most dangerous woman in the world" -- Ali Cat, 01:20:36 08/18/04 Wed