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Iraq: “Missile Man” Surrenders, “Dr. Germ” Still Free A former Iraqi general, known to U.N. inspectors as the “Missile Man,” turned himself in to U.S. custody yesterday, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, April 28). Amer Rashid, ranked 47th on the U.S. Defense Department list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis, was formerly in charge of Iraqi missile programs and recently served as the country’s oil minister. He is married to Rihab Taha, an Iraqi microbiologist known as “Dr. Germ.” The U.S. military is also looking for Taha, but her whereabouts remain unknown, according to AP. Rashid was a member of the Military Industrialization Organization, which oversaw the production of Iraq’s most powerful weapons. Lt. Gen. Hossam Amin, the chief Iraqi liaison with weapons inspectors, and Amir al-Saadi, Saddam Hussein’s top weapons adviser, were both in that organization and are now in U.S. custody. Top U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said in March that Rashid and Taha would be some of “the most interesting persons” to interrogate about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (Niko Price, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, April 29). Meanwhile, captured former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has told U.S. officials that Iraq destroyed WMD stockpiles as military forces arrived in the Middle East to prepare for invading Iraq. U.S. officials said they do not know if Aziz is being truthful, or if he would even be in a position to know such information (CNN.com, April 29). Another Suspicious Find U.S. forces have seized a truck near Mosul and specialists are testing equipment from the truck for traces of biological agents, the Los Angeles Times reported today. U.S. intelligence officials believe the truck might be a mobile biological weapons laboratory, according to the Times (Miller/Drogin, Los Angeles Times, April 29).
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