[lbo-talk] SEP in the news

[Brad DeLong]

>Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 13, 2003
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>Publishing House Criticizes U.S. Government for Arrest of Iraqi 
>Scientist on 'Most Wanted' List
>By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO
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>A respected academic publishing house in the United States is 
>demanding the immediate release of Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, an Iraqi 
>scientist whom U.S. military forces arrested last week because of 
>suspicions that she is a key figure in Iraq's alleged 
>biological-weapons program.
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>South End Press, which published Ms. Ammash's research paper, "Toxic 
>Pollution, the Gulf War, and Sanctions," in Iraq Under Siege, 
>(2002), an anthology about the effects of war and sanctions, has 
>accused the U.S. government of political persecution and attempting 
>to silence the Iraqi scholar through her detainment.
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>"We are outraged at the U.S.'s extra-legal detention of Dr. Ammash 
>and its plans to interrogate her," Alexander Dwinell, South End's 
>co-publisher, said in a news release. "The U.S. government is trying 
>to silence Dr. Ammash's outspoken criticism of the U.S. role in 
>causing cancers and other illnesses in Iraq through its own use of 
>biologically hazardous weapons such as radioactive depleted 
>uranium," he added.
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>Ms. Ammash, a former dean at the University of Baghdad who was the 
>most senior woman in Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'ath Party...

South End has got to be kidding, don't they?

Brad DeLong