Dr. Rihab Taha,Story Dangerous Woman in the World Virus Makers
Many scientists who use their skills to advance science, but sometimes there are some scientists who use it for other purposes. Perhaps many who have never heard the name Dr.. Rihab Taha, because of his reputation as one of the most dangerous woman in the world.Dr. Rihab Taha was born in Iraq in 1957. There is no information about the date of birth, perhaps deliberately withheld. He is a graduate of the University of Baghdad and received his Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in the field of plant toxins in Norwich, England.
He published two article titled Contribution of tabtoxin to the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabac and Effect of tabtoxin on nitrogen metabolism in 1986. Two articles were written Rihab with supervising professor named John Turner.
Rihab Taha later married Dr. Amir Mohammad Rashid al-Ubaidi, the Iraqi oil minister and the director of Iraq's military industries. Her husband is the person in charge of the special weapons program of Saddam Hussein and Rihab Taha is the second wife of Dr. Amir Mohammad Rashid.
Dr. Amir Mohammad Rashid al-Ubaidi
According to a friend - a friend Rihab Taha during college, Rihab once said that he wanted to return to Iraq to work as a biology teacher. Although he said that, the fact that he joined the program Germs Iraq War. In 1985, he worked in the al-Muthanna chemical plant near Baghdad and not long after he became head of production at al-Hakam / al-Law, a secret facility that was allegedly Iraqi biological weapons research.
United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the UN's special committee, once a military weapons facility to inspect Iraq a few years ago. At that time, UNSCOM visited al-Hakam who was allegedly a secret facility to develop biological weapons Iraq. Dr. Rihab who was in charge there said that al-Hakam was chicken feed manufacturing facilities. Charles Duelfer, deputy head of UNSCOM said if there was something odd about that chicken feed manufacturing facilities. He added that if the facility is surrounded by air defense weapon.
One example of growth media
Dr statement. Rihab that said if al-Hakam was chicken feed mill got a suspicion of UNSCOM Chief Inspector, Dr. Rod Barton.Ia show documents of Dr. Rihab obtained by UNSCOM of the Israeli regime to show that the Iraqi government has purchased 10 tonnes of medium grower from the British company called Oxoid. Media grower is a mixture of sugar, protein, and minerals that allow microscopic organisms to grow and thrive. The media is commonly used in the medical field for diagnostics purposes. According to records, the hospital only consume media grower Iraq is about 200kg per year. In 1988, Iraq had imported 39 tons of media this grower.
With the evidence presented by UNSCOM, Dr. Rihab finally admitted if the agency's biological weapons has resulted in about 19,000 liters of toxic food, 8,000 liters of anthrax virus, 2,000 liters of aflatoxin which can cause liver cancer. Upon his confession, he was later tried and found guilty, so he languished in jail for several months.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
In August 1990, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Team DR, Rihab ordered to prepare for a biological weapons program. In January 1991, a team of 100 scientists and some of the crew had filled 157 bombs and 16 missile with food poisoning, 50 other bombs and 5 missile with anthrax virus. In an interview with the BBC, Dr. Rihab Taha refused if the government had used biological weapons. "We never intended to use them. We do not want to hurt anyone," he added in an interview with BBC journalist Jane Corbin. But UNSCOM discovered evidence, namely the discovery of a number of munitions dumped into the river near al-Hakam facility. UNSCOM also found other evidence if the team Dr. Rihab has conducted experiments on English donkey and a dog coming from Germany.
UNSCOM also suspect that the weapons - biological weapons was never tested on humans, it is reinforced by the discovery of two large primates are kept in a room measuring 5 meters during an inspection. Even so, UNSCOM found no evidence that Iraqi scientists conducted experiments on animals.
On March 28, 2005, the Associated Press reported Dr statement. Rihab that says if there are differences in reports of 18,000 gallons of anthrax virus were found to the UN by the number of viruses which he destroyed. This has led to the Iraq war, as the U.S. assumed Saddam had hidden virus that will be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Dr. Rihab later confessed that he along with his friend had hidden virus at a gate in one of Saddam's palace, although ultimately virus that is missing is not found there.
On 18 September 2004, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, along with his group kidnapped an American citizen named Eugene Armstrong, Jack Hensley and Kenneth Bigley. The group is demanding the release of Dr. Rihab Taha and threatened to kill the hostages if their demands are not met. In the end, Armstrong and Hensley was killed after being kidnapped for 72 hours, while Bigley kept alive for three weeks. Even so, the demand is not met by the government.
Mrs. Anthrax
In December 2005, 22 prisoners were called "high-level detainees" unconditionally released two days after the Iraqi elections. They had undergone imprisonment for 30 months, including Dr. Rihab Taha and another female scientist who has the nickname "Mrs Anthrax", Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash. This acquisition has gone through a number of processes involving the government of Iraq and America.
The story of Dr. Rihab Taha is only so much from the many scientists who are interested in using his ability for other purposes. Weapons of mass destruction that had been sought by the United States may not be nuclear, but it could have been a microscopic organism that is much more deadly than nuclear itself.
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