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DoYouEverWonder

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Sun Dec-25-05 07:40 AM
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Iraq weapons experts face arrest

25 December 2005

A senior Iraqi official has called for the re-arrest of two of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons experts, released by US forces earlier this week.

National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubbaie said warrants had been issued for the arrest of Rihab Taha and Huda Ammash.

The pair were among 22 high-ranking Iraqi detainees set free by the US.

They had been accused of running Iraq's bioweapons programme. The US concluded they had no useful information.

A lawyer for Dr Ammash dismissed the threat to re-arrest her, saying the Iraqi government had agreed to the release of the detainees on the condition that they left Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4558800.stm

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greiner3

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Sun Dec-25-05 07:57 AM
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1. It's to be seen just how independent the Iraqi government;

will act against the US. News at 11.

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whoretaculture

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Sun Dec-25-05 11:41 AM
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2. Perhaps

Paris just got two more citizens.

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sun Dec-25-05 12:36 PM
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3. What I want to know

is why the hell did we let them go in the first place?

We killed over 100,000 people to get the evil doers in the Bush's deck of terrorists and then we just let them go. Excuse me?

BTW: Welcome to DU :hi:

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daleo

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Sun Dec-25-05 01:57 PM
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4. It's a good question

Maybe some sort of quid pro quo - perhaps they promised not to implicate any U.S. companies or politicians of the past if they were given their freedom. A show trial of these two might have been too dangerous - they probably know details of western involvement in Hussein's weapons programs. Hussein may only know the vague outline.

Maybe it will eventually become clear.

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