US Educated Iraqi Woman who opposed depleted uranium jailed

[seventhson]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B1C55FB9-92A1-451D-ACF8-F59ABEF48CD0.htm

Ammash was born in Baghdad in 1953; she earned her degree in biology/microbiology from Baghdad University in 1975. She pursued her higher studies at Texas University in the US, where she got her masters degree in microbiology. In 1983, she gained her PhD from the University of Missouri.

"I want to know why my wife has been detained for 18 months without charge. How long will it take them to do so? She is a mother of two children and grandmother of two. My wife has been sitting in a prison cell for 18 months without knowing what the charges against her are. Have you any idea what it means to be held without knowing when you will be released?" Makki said


Dr Ammash is the author of Toxic Pollution, the Gulf War, and Sanctions, a peer-reviewed research paper published in Iraq Under Siege (South End Press, 2002), an anthology that examined the effects of the Gulf war and sanctions on Iraq. In this chapter she warned that the use of DU in Iraq has left its deadly consequences on nearly half a million Iraqi women and children. She proved that the Gulf war syndrome did exist in Iraq because of the use of DU.

I think it is the duty of every honourable scientist to warn his or her country of any possible danger. How could she remain silent?
They said she was involved in secret weapons programmes. I would like to assure you that this is not true. All her research is published work and she has nothing to hide. She dedicated herself to science. Google her name on the internet and see how much research she conducted.

[seventhson]

1. This story is really disturbing

but not too surprising.

The fact that everyone here is mute about it is troubling though

[knowbody0]

2. the only thing undamaged in iraq is the oil

[G_j]

3. I guess can you can just add it to the book n/t

[OutsourceBush]

4. Aljazeera is not exactly an un-biased source..

Regardless, even they say "Ammash was a professor at Baghdad University and held a senior position at the regional command of the Baath party."

You generally didn't get to be a senior Baath party member unless you killed multiple people. I am very skeptical that she was squeeky clean.

[seventhson]

5. Same could be said of Republicans

I call bullshit

[seventhson]

6. nudge