VOICER Top Iraqi scientist is arrested

Описание: (6 May 2003) VOICED BY: LOUISE BATES



Recent - February 2003
00 00 Doctor Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash sitting down
00 09 Close up of Ammash in chair
00 11 Men cheering from balcony
00 13 Ammash saluting
00 19 Officials saluting
00 22 Ammash waving by portrait of Saddam Hussein
00 30 Wide shot of Ammash waving

6 May 2003
00 35 Wide of house of of arrested scientist Doctor Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash
00 38 Pan up house
00 42 Dr Nada Al-Ansarie enters room at Baghdad University
00 49 SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Nada Al-Ansarie, Head of Biology department, Baghdad University:
"Please be careful, she is true, she is a scientist, she has nothing to deal with the mass destruction weapons, please, and she was always trying to do the right and the best thing through her position and that was our hopes through her."
01 06 Various of laboratory where Ammash use to work

Recent - February 2003
01 14 Wide shot of hall
01 17 Ammash walking past audience clapping at event to meet students who came to act as human shields
01 22 ENDS

STORYLINE

A top Iraqi scientist is in US custody, according to Washington officials who suspect she has information about banned biological weapons.

US-educated Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, detained Sunday, is the 19th of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis to be arrested.

00 02 Doctor Huda Ammash is believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Baghdad's biological weapons capability since the first Gulf War in 1991.

00 10 She has advanced degrees from two US universities and trained under Nassir al-Hindawi.

00 17 He's described by UN inspectors as the father of Iraq's biological weapons programme.

00 22 She's also worked closely with Saddam's youngest son, Qusai.

00 27 Two years ago, she became the first and only woman elected to the regional command in the Baath Party.

00 35 She lived in this house in Baghdad and neighbours described her as a pleasant woman who didn't take advantage of her high-ranking position.

00 42 Colleagues at the microbiology department of Baghdad University, where she was the dean, pleaded for her to be treated well.

00 49
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Please be careful, she is true, she is a scientist, she has nothing to deal with the mass destruction weapons, please, and she was always trying to do the right and the best thing through her position and that was our hopes through her."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Nada Al-Ansarie, Head of Biology department, Baghdad University

01 07 Officials have not yet found any weapons of mass destruction - which President George Bush's administration cited as justification for the war in Iraq.

01 16 They've said they need information from Iraqis, such as Dr Ammash, to help find them. 01 22

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