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U.S. & Iraq Considers Releasing 20 Ex-Baathist Officials

HeadlineMay 26, 2005

The Knight Ridder news agency is reporting the U.S. military and Iraqi government are considering releasing up to twenty members of Saddam Hussein’s former Baathist government. Included on the proposed list are three officials that once appeared on the Pentagon’s fifty-five most wanted list. Two of the most prominent officials being considered for release are former Oil Minister Amer Rasheed and his wife, the scientist Rehab Taha. She is best known in this country by the nickname Dr. Germ for her experiments with bacterial-biological programs.

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