US forces arrest three Iraqi weapons scientists

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD - The US army has arrested three Iraqi scientists who worked on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programmes, Higher Education Minister Ziad Abdul Razzak said on Monday.

“The three scientists who are teachers at Baghdad’s technology university were arrested last week,” the minister told the Kurdish daily Al-Taakhi.

The ministry had sent a message to the interim Governing Council to register a “protest” over the arrest and to demand the government declare an amnesty for teachers.

A large number of Iraqi scientists who were employed on the programmes have returned to teaching.

UN weapons inspectors visited Iraqi universities on numerous occasions seeking information on the allegedly hidden weapons, however the former chief disarmament inspector Hans Blix last week stated that Baghdad probably destroyed the elusive arms after the 1991 Gulf war as Iraqi leaders claimed all along.

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[damnraddem]

1. The U.S. is getting desperate about those 'unimportant' WMDs.

I wonder whether three university teachers will be trotted out with testimony that they did create WMDs for Saddam after 1991. Well, if so, the U.S. authorities had better be careful to not leave noticeable bruises or other signs of torture.