[Marxism] Israelis murder Iraqi Scientists

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Israeli secret agents killed 310  Iraqi scientists 

By  Mustafa Amara 

Azzaman, 2004-10-30 -- More than 310  Iraqi scientists are thought to have 
perished at the hands of  Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad 
to 
US troops in  April 2003, a seminar has found. 

The seminar, held in  Cairo, was attended by politicians, journalists and 
experts with an  interest in current Iraqi affairs. 

The experts said  they had detected an organized campaign aimed at â
liquidating Iraqi  scientistsâ in the past 18 months and most of them pointed 
the  
finger at the Israeli secret police service, the  Mossad. 

The organizers said their aim was to highlight  the plight of Iraqi 
scientists particularly those who were engaged  in the weapons programs under 
the 
former regime. 

âThere  is a joint American and Israeli plan to kill as many Iraqi  
scientists as possible,â said Abdel Raoof al-Raidi, an ambassador  and 
assistant 
foreign minister. 

The Iraqi ambassador in  Cairo, Ahmad al-Iraqi, accused Israel of sending to 
Iraq immediately  after the US invasion âa commando unitâ charged with the 
killing of  Iraqi scientists. 

âIsrael has played a prominent role  in liquidating Iraqi scientists â The 
campaign is part of a Zionist  plan to kill Arab and Muslim scientists working 
in applied research  which Israel sees as threatening its interests,â 
al-Iraqi 
 said. 

DR. Imad Jad, an Israeli affairs expert at the  Al-Ahram Studies Center, said 
the US had already airlifted 70 Iraqi  scientists out of the country and 
placed them in areas to make it  difficult for them to âtransfer information 
to 
anti-US  quarters.â 

He said more than 310 Iraqi scientists have  been killed so far and most of 
them at the hands of Mossad agents  working in Iraq. 

He said the Ahram Center estimated  that nearly 17,000 Iraqi scientists 
working in various fields of  knowledge have fled the country since the US-led  
invasion. 

In Baghdad, interim government officials  refused to comment on the 
deliberations that took place in the Cairo  conference.

However, the Ministry of Higher Education and the  Ministry of Science and 
Technology said their own figures tally with  those mentioned at the seminar, 
particularly regarding the number of  Iraqi scientist been killed so  far.


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