Previous posts have referred to the raid on Dr, Germ's premisses. But nothing has been said about her husband, the Missile Man. From The Australian

She is called "Dr Germ" and he is known as the "Missile Man".
After meeting at a New York seminar hosted by UN weapons inspectors in the early 1990s, Dr Rihab Taha and Amer Mohammed Rashid became the power couple of Iraq's clandestine weapons program.
Today, US special forces backed by about 40 Marines raided their Baghdad home - but found no trace of Rashid, who ran Iraq's missile programs, or his wife, who headed the country's secret biological laboratory.
Instead, three unidentified men exited the raid with their hands up as troops removed several boxes of documents.
Taha, a microbiologist who studied at the University of East Anglia in Britain, was in charge of the Iraqi facility that weaponised anthrax, botulinum toxin and aflotoxin. Rashid, a former Iraqi army general, was deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's point-man on weapons delivery systems and eventually rose to the prestigious post of oil minister.
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Rashid was on one of the playing cards issued by the Pentagon to help US troops identify the most wanted Iraqis. In the deck of cards, he rated the six of spades - eight places below Saddam. Taha was not on the list.
Current and former inspectors who interviewed her in the mid-1990s described her as difficult and dour. The Iraqis presented her as the head of the biological program, but inspectors suspect she may have been fronting for someone more senior. She met with UN teams recently on technical issues, but they never went to her home.

For where they may be, see this previous post.

Posted By Alan E Brain at April 17, 2003 01:17 AM | TrackBack