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PSYOPS- Chemical sally US anthrax and the Kidnapping and beheading by CIA...

capt wardrobe | 21.09.2004 11:55

is it just, me or is this really evil beheading , linked to the whole anthrax Iraq - 911 scare
that got the invasion and occupation underway in the first place????

Chemical sally US anthrax and the Kidnapping and beheading by CIA...

Strange events in iraq - Hostages demand release of "chemical Sally"

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Son of hostage pleads with UK Prime Minister

The son of the British hostage threatened with execution by his Iraqi kidnappers has appealed to Tony Blair to intervene to save his father's life.

Kenneth Bigley, a 62-year-old engineer from Liverpool, was seized with two Americans in Baghdad last Thursday and his kidnappers have threatened to kill all three men unless their demands for women inmates to be freed from Iraqi prisons are met.

[snip]

Following the release of the execution video, Mr Bigley's son, Craig, 33, called for the Prime Minister to intervene.
"I ask Tony Blair personally to consider the amount of bloodshed already suffered," he told the BBC. "Please meet the demands and release my father - two women for two men. "Only you can save him now," he said. "You have children and you will understand how I feel at this time."

The kidnappers - the Tawhid and Jihad group - are led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who has alleged links to al-Qa'eda.

They have demanded the release of Iraqi women prisoners from the Abu Ghraib and Umm Qasr jails.

The US military says no women are held at either jail, although it says two female "security prisoners" are being held elsewhere.

They are believed to be Dr Rihab Taha, who was in charge of Iraq's biological programmes in the 1980s, and Dr Huda Ammash, a weapons scientist known as "Mrs Anthrax". - Telegraph uk
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/21/uiraq.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/09/21/ixportaltop.html

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Will Tony Blair come to the rescue just before he calls an election?
Stay tuned to the psy-ops to find out...

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Flashback: March 29, 2003 - Mrs Anthrax used to justify invasion
Iraq's 'Mrs Anthrax' sits with Saddam

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Source: The Times (London)- THE only woman at Saddam Hussein's leadership table looks self-possessed and almost demure, sitting with her head covered and hands folded neatly in front of her. US intelligence officers call her Mrs Anthrax.

The appearance of Baghdad's reputed germ warfare expert, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, on Iraqi television on Thursday sent a chill down collective spines in Washington and London.

US officials studying Saddam's appearances wondered yesterday why she was shown sitting three seats away from him, complete with military epaulettes, the well-groomed face of Iraq's biological weapons programme. They are already trying to absorb the discovery of 3,000 Iraqi chemical and biological weapons suits and masks at a hospital in al-Nasiriyah that had been used by Iraqi paramilitaries.

US officials believe that Dr Ammash, who earned a PhD in microbiology at an American university and was appointed to Saddam's Revolutionary Command Council in May 2001, helped to rebuild Iraq's bioweapons programme in the mid-1990s, As the camera panned repeatedly past her face, it seemed as if Baghdad wanted to send a warning to the US and British forces.

"Mrs Anthrax" learnt some of her apparently deadly science at the University of Missouri, where her 1983 doctorate focused on the poisoning effects of radiation, paraquat and adrimycin, a chemotherapy drug, on bacteria and mammals, a university official said.

Geoff Hoon, the Defence Minister, says meanwhile that US-British forces now have categorical evidence that Saddam is ready to use weapons of mass destruction. - source
Flashback: May 2003 - Mrs Anthrax captured
A top Iraqi scientist believed to have worked on biological-weapons programs was detained in central Iraq Monday, senior Defense officials said.
 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/mrsanthrax.html

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Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash was in U.S. custody, officials said, but they cited conflicting accounts on whether she had surrendered or was captured. Ammash was No. 53 on the list of 55 most-wanted officials from Saddam Hussein's deposed government.

Ammash was Iraq's leading microbial genetic engineer, U.S. officials said. She is believed to have been instrumental in secretly rebuilding Iraq's bio-warfare capabilities in the mid-1990s while she headed a biological laboratory at the Military Industrial Commission, which helped coordinate Saddam's clandestine weapons programs.

"The world is a safer place because she's off the streets," said a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Ammash is the fifth senior official from Iraq's weapons program in U.S. custody. She has been dubbed "Mrs. Anthrax" in the media for her alleged involvement in programs to produce lethal biological agents.

"She is definitely knowledgeable about Iraq's biological-warfare program, both in terms of the nature and extent of the program and in terms of where facilities and materials might be located," the official added.

U.S. intelligence agencies have tracked Ammash since the early 1990s, the official said, although she had little public notoriety until she appeared in a video released during the war that showed her as the only woman at a meeting with Saddam and his aides. The purpose of the meeting was never explained, and it is not clear when it occurred. - source
 http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/2003/05/06/Nation/U.Captures.mrs.Anthrax-432864.shtml

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Is she the person who can categorically proove there were NO WMD IN IRAQ?

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Why is Mrs Anthrax so important? Her Father...

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Salih Mahdi Ammash [Hudas father] was a military attache in Washington in the 1950s and subsequently participated in the bloody 1963 coup in which many thousands of leftists were murdered and the country was plunged into chaos for the best part of a year. Ammash senior was involved in another conspiracy that brought the Ba'ath back to power in 1968 with himself as Interior Minister. In this position, Salih Mahdi Ammash was at least nominally in charge of the Amn Al-Amma (Public Security Department) headed by the notorious torturer Nadhim Kzar. Kzar was in reality answerable to Saddam Hussain (before they fell apart) who was building up his own separate security agency as well. To be sure, Ammash was more moderate and more cultured than the thuggish Saddam and Kzar, and he was also popular among the then tiny band of Ba'ath Party faithful, but he was a conspirator who disgraced his high public office and who was responsible for assasinations and military coups. Ammash's power relied not so much on popularity, but on the military and on Saddam's and Kzar's brutality, and because of that, he himself was soon made dispensable and kicked up to ceremonial positions which he accepted without protest. Saddam went ahead corrupting Iraq's politics and public institutions and plunging the country into a series of crises that ultimately led to the catastrohpic conditions it is in today under a US colonial regime. -

source
 http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2003/msg04093.html
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Known as “Mrs. Anthrax,” or "Chemical Sally" - Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash earned a master’s degree in microbiology from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas,

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Flashback Anthrax attacks linked to Iraq in US press
Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks'

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American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York believe they have all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack - and have named Iraq as prime suspect as the source of the deadly spores. Their inquiries are adding to what US hawks say is a growing mass of evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved, possibly indirectly, with the 11 September hijackers. If investigators' fears are confirmed - and sceptics fear American hawks could be publicising the claim to press their case for strikes against Iraq - the pressure now building among senior Pentagon and White House officials in Washington for an attack may become irresistible. Plans have been discussed among Pentagon strategists for US air strike support for armed insurrections against Saddam by rebel Kurds in the north and Shia Muslims in the south with a promise of American ground troops to protect the oilfields of Basra. Guardian
 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,573893,00.html

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The earliest mention I can find of "Huda Ammash" and "anthrax" in the same Web page via Google is from May 5. Even a simple search for "Mrs. Anthrax" fails to turn up much before May 5, much less news stories specifically referring to Ammash as "Mrs. Anthrax". Even removing the "." from behind "Mrs" fails to get anything earlier than May 5.
If anyone can find an earlier reference to Ammash as "Mrs Anthrax" I'd love to hear about it. Until that time, though, I'm thinking the worst: that the Administration or some neoconservative or generic hawk planted the term "Mrs Anthrax" as a way of linking Iraq to the anthrax attacks on the United States that occurred after September 11. President Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and others have already worked very hard to link September 11 with Iraq in the public mind — so succesfully, in fact, that more than 60% of Americans believe such a link exists, despite the complete lack of evidence — and I've certainly heard many people argue (years ago, at least) that there was a link between the anthrax attacks and Iraq. - Creating a Link Without the Link: Mrs Anthrax
 http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000638.php

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Flashback: US anthrax attacks linked to army biological weapons plant

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The anthrax spores enclosed in envelopes mailed to two leading Senate Democrats in October are biologically identical to bacteria secretly manufactured at a US germ warfare facility during the last decade, according to press reports and an analysis by a leading microbiologist.

The army biological and chemical warfare unit at the Dugway Proving Ground, about 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, may well be the source of the weapons-grade anthrax sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. Scientists at Dugway grew and processed spores deriving from the Ames strain—the strain that appeared in all the letters sent to media outlets and Congress.

The spores had been carefully milled to produce the size most effective in spreading the deadly bacteria, between one and three microns.

The existence of the secret army program was first revealed by the Baltimore Sun in an article published December 12. Until then, US officials, including those investigating the anthrax attacks, had maintained that the American military stopped producing germ warfare materials in the late 1960s, before the signing of an international treaty banning the development of such weapons.

Pentagon spokesmen now claim that the development of weapons-grade anthrax was legal under the treaty because the production of small quantities is permitted for “peaceful and protective” purposes, i.e., to prepare countermeasures to a germ warfare attack. The United States is the only country that is known to have produced weapons-grade anthrax in the past 25 years.

While the Dugway facility produced the dried anthrax spores, they were sometimes sent to another germ warfare unit at Fort Detrick, near Frederick, Maryland, only 30 miles from Washington, DC. Fort Detrick has equipment for killing bacteria with radiation, and received shipments of the anthrax to be sterilized so it would be safer to work on. The most recent shipment from Dugway to Fort Detrick was last June 27, the Sun reported. The spores were returned to Dugway on September 4, one week before the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, and four weeks before the first anthrax cases were detected in south Florida. - WSWS
 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/anth-d28.shtml

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So if the Anthrax attacks can be traced to US complicity - what about those kidnappers?


Would this help explain those Dead micro-biologists???
 http://www.wardrobe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/murder_inc/deadmicro.html

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