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Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Release ‘Mrs. Anthrax’?
Saddam Hussein’s top aides just released from prison may have stories to tell. But when it comes to Iraq, who should we trust?
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Melinda Liu
Newsweek
updated 12:25 p.m. CT, Thurs., Dec . 22, 2005
Dec. 22, 2005 - Shortly before the Iraq war began in March 2003, I didn’t believe Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash when she insisted, in an interview, that Saddam Hussein’s regime was not developing biological weapons. Dubbed by Washington “Mrs. Anthrax” or “Chemical Sally,” Ammash was then Iraq’s most powerful woman. She’d been accused by U.S. investigators of heading a program, into the mid-'90s, that involved the attempted weaponization of anthrax, smallpox and botulin toxin.

On Monday, her Baghdad lawyer confirmed that Ammash was one of around two dozen Saddam-era officials released from jail without charges. A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed a number of so-called “high-value detainees” had been released because “they were not considered to be a security threat, and they were not wanted on charges under Iraqi law. So we no longer had any reason to continue detaining them.”

Ammash and another woman, Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, a British-educated biological-weapons expert that American officials called “Dr. Germ,” were among Saddam’s most notorious scientists. They were believed to have run the Baathist regime’s biological-weapons programs. When Ammash was detained in early May 2003, I simply assumed she would go on trial for war crimes as one of the masterminds of a WMD program that was, after all, the reason why the U.S. and British governments had insisted on regime change in Baghdad.