"Playing card wanted": The U.S. military pursues Saddam's wanted criminals in an innovative way.
There are 55 cards in this deck, 52 of which depict Iraq's **, including their names and portraits, and the other 3 introduce some common knowledge of Iraq.
One of them is particularly eye-catching, because in the portrait of the male **, there is a wanted female in a green turban and saluting to the front. She is Huda Saleh Mahdi Amash, ranked 53rd on the American Poker List, codenamed "5 of Hearts".
As the only woman in the poker wanted list, another title of Amash is very well-known, she is called "Mrs. Anthrax" by the mainstream ** in the United States, and is a very terrifying existence.
Her appearance once frightened a "division" of the US army on the front line, and made the US troops on the front line feel like a great enemy. In May of the same year, Amash was arrested by the U.S. military.
What happened to this "anthrax lady" who once terrified the US military? What did this woman do to make the US military so afraid?
In 1953, a diplomatic family in Baghdad welcomed a baby girl named Huda Sari Mahdi Amash. However, who would have thought that years later, the name would resound around the globe and be full of danger.
A year before Amash's birth, her father, Saleh Magdi Amash, officially joined the Baath Party and remained at the heart of Iraqi politics for the next few years as a member of the Baath leadership group.
On July 14, 1958, a military coup d'état broke out in Iraq, and the Free Officers organized a revolution to overthrow the royal family in a bloody way and proclaim a republic.
Amash was a member of the Free Officers Movement and subsequently held key positions as Iraq's Minister of Defense, Ambassador to Moscow, and then to Deputy Iraq. And Amash's daughter, Amash, has been influenced by family politics since she was a child.
As the jewel of her father's palm, she had a prosperous and carefree childhood, and received a high-quality education. When he was a student, Amash did not have the title of "Mrs. Anthrax" and was not a wanted criminal in the US military, but was trained by American universities.
After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Baghdad, she studied at Texas Women's University in the United States, where she earned a master's degree in microbiology, and a Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Missouri, where she studied the effects of radiation, paraquat and the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin on bacteria and mammals.
Amash's academic field was broad, with an early focus on bacteria and deadly poisons, which laid the foundation for her to become "Lady Anthrax." In 1983, Amash received high praise from her supervisor, Professor Brown, for her Ph.D., as "beautiful, experienced, and extremely intelligent", showing her remarkable scientific ability.
For researchers, the research environment plays a key role in personal development. However, compared with the United States, Iraq has a clear gap in overall strength. Staying in the U.S. would obviously provide Amash with better opportunities for growth.
But she still chose to return to her home country. After years of studying abroad, she returned to her hometown with anticipation, but she was greeted with shocking bad news.
In January 1985, in Helsinki, Amash's father Saleh suddenly collapsed, and it was rumored that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had planned an assassination attempt, resulting in his death from poisoning.
This view is not unfounded, because Saleh Magdi Amash and Saddam not only had a conflict of political ideas, but they were already fierce rivals long before Saddam became the first to become a rival.
Surprisingly, after returning to China, Amash did not firmly oppose Saddam, the suspect who killed his father, but was immediately accepted by Saddam Hussein and became his closest assistant.
There is also a theory that Amash ruled out Saddam Hussein after an in-depth investigation, but the truth is still unknown. What we know now is that after returning to China, Amash's first job was as the head of the biology department at the University of Baghdad, and at the same time as the president of the Iraqi Microbiology Society.
She also trained under Nasir al-Hindawi, known as the "Father of Iraq's Bio** Program". In the 80s of the 20th century, Nasir al-Hindavi was the leader of the Iraqi Bio** project, and Amash was quickly integrated into the biochemical ** research and development program.
According to U.S. intelligence agencies, since the end of the Gulf War in 1991, Amash has played an important role in Iraq's ** plan, and the research on toxins such as anthrax and botulinum toxin that she is responsible for is the key to creating extremely lethal organisms.
With his unique mystique and elusive whereabouts, Amash left intelligence officers at a loss. An American** even bluntly said that Amash, like Saddam, is elusive and unpredictable.
In 1997, United Nations inspectors also tried to find her, but Amash always disappeared as if she had vanished. On one occasion, when the inspectors searched around the Faculty of Science of the University of Baghdad, even the teachers and students did not know her traces, and only one "student" in a lab coat passed by them, and it turned out that she was the famous and admired Amash.
In the mid-90s, Amash achieved remarkable results, not only holding a key position in the biological laboratory of the Iraqi Military Industrialization Organization, but also gradually increasing his political influence, becoming a capable leader in Saddam's political circles.
So, how did Amash gain Saddam's high level of trust? In 2001, in"Prince"With Uday's support, she was personally selected by Saddam Hussein to join the highest decision-making level of the Baath Socialist Party, where she was responsible for managing the party's activities in Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen.
In the official Iraqi videotape, Amash can be seen sitting next to Uday in a military uniform, and she is the only woman to appear in Saddam's cabinet meetings. According to Western ** reports, Amash had a smooth career in the Ba'ath Party and was good at pleasing Saddam, so Iraqis called her a "fox" and considered her as cunning as a fox.
From a doctor to a politician, Amash has made a name for himself in Iraq, and his research on biology has continued to deepen, which has attracted the attention of the US Intelligence Agency. Due to Amash's unique views on biochemistry and his important position in Saddam's regime, the U.S. military gave Amash titles such as "Lady Anthrax" and "Chemical Sari", which shrouded this woman in a mysterious and terrifying atmosphere.
On February 5, 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iraq of mass destruction** at a public meeting of the United Nations Security Council, citing a small test tube containing white powder as evidence.
On March 20, the US-British coalition used this accusation as a pretext to launch the Iraq War.
It turned out that on the seventh day after the outbreak of the Iraq war, Iraqi television ** made a videotape. The video shows that Saddam Hussein and the cabinet are holding a high-level meeting, and to the surprise of the US military, a female general is sitting in the meeting.
The female general was dressed in a military uniform with a white headscarf and a serious expression. This tape has aroused great repercussions in the US military, and the British and American intelligence agencies regard it as a beast.
This female general is Amash, also known as "Mrs. Anthrax".
Because of the sudden appearance of Amash, the US side suspects that Iraq may be planning a biochemical attack. Therefore, they immediately issued an emergency order for the soldiers on the front line to wear chemical suits, gas masks, and be ready for a possible bio-chemical war.
The U.S. military's worries are not groundless. Recently, in a hospital on the southern front of the Iraqi battlefield, the US military searched more than 3,000 pieces of anti-chemical weapons of Iraqi soldiers, and this discovery has greatly increased the concern of the US military.
As early as the Iran-Iraq war in the eighties of the last century, Iraq repeatedly threw chemical munitions on the Iranian army and rear towns, including munitions containing lethal agents such as mustard gas and Tabang, causing up to 130,000 people to be poisoned or die in the war due to chemical **.
Many people still feel creepy when they reminisce about the experience of being attacked by biochemicals. The horror of biochemical ** is self-evident, so it is reasonable for the US military to be so cautious and heavily guarded.
In the midst of this concern, the appearance of the "Lady of Anthrax" undoubtedly unnerved the US military, and the US troops on the front line were on alert.
After a false alarm, some people laughed that the appearance of an Iraqi woman on TV actually caused a "division" of the US military to fall into a panic, which is enough to prove the far-reaching influence of Amash's terror.
However, the real Amash is not as people imagine, an American reporter once interviewed her, found that she was dressed in elegant Western-style clothes, wearing pearl jewelry, and her expression was not as grim as in **.
She smiled and said that she had received a lot of anonymous ** who vehemently asked her to abandon the Saddam regime for the sake of her family. For Amash, defending Iraq is the ultimate goal of her profession and an honor.
Although her name terrifies the U.S. military, she cannot change the situation of the war, because the disparity in the national power between the United States and Iraq determines the direction of the war.
On April 8, 2003, a number of key cities and strategic points in Iraq were captured by the United States and British forces, relying on air and ground superiority. American tanks drove into Baghdad, and the tide of the battle was clearly tilted in favor of the coalition forces.
After the fall of Saddam**, a large number of ** began to flee, and Amash also changed into low-key clothes and left Baghdad. Immediately afterwards, the world's attention to the "playing card wanted warrant" was released, the effect of playing cards is significant, only a few days, the United States and British soldiers are well aware of all the wanted targets on the playing cards, greatly increasing the difficulty of the wanted objects to escape.
Amash, once the US military nemesis, is now the fifty-third person on the wanted list, and she is known as the "Lady of Anthrax", and the world searches for her whereabouts.
In order to evade pursuit, she carefully hides herself, however, no matter how cautious she is, she cannot escape the fate of being found. On May 4, 2003, Amash was in Baghdad** when the U.S. military was wearing a full suit of chemical protective gear to deal with her possible biochemical and chemical ** threat, and did not dare to take off the chemical protective suit until it was confirmed that she had been captured.
Amash is being held in prison, and the U.S. military regards her as a prisoner of great value, and wants to obtain information from her about Iraq's development of biochemical **. However, Amash always insisted that Iraq did not have biochemistry, and he did not participate in the relevant research.
Amash, a scientist working on the carcinogenic effects of depleted uranium, discovered that the bomb contained depleted uranium during the operation of the US military during the liberation of Kuwait. However, while in prison, her health deteriorated dramatically due to breast cancer** and illness.
On 19 December 2005, Amash was finally released after a long period of detention due to deteriorating health and the lack of convincing evidence, but she was so weak that even if she was released, she would not be able to return to her former glory.
Amash's whereabouts have always been a mystery, and some people are rumored to have died of cancer, but many believe that she did not die, but continued to work incognito.
From a glamorous doctor to a politician whose whereabouts are mysterious, Amash's legendary life is accompanied by mysteries that fade into the long river of history.
Standing in Amash's position, he devotes himself to the study of biochemistry, and seems to be working for the state or the regime to which he is loyal. However, the destruction of human physical and mental health by biochemical ** cannot be ignored.
In war, everyone is plunged into endless fear, and knowledge and abilities should be used to create peace, not to exacerbate it. From the outbreak of the Iraq War to the withdrawal of US troops on December 18, 2011, there have been countless front-line soldiers and civilians, and the pain caused by the war will be deeply imprinted in people's hearts.
We are fortunate to live in a peaceful country, and we should cherish the life we have and hope that the world will no longer be shrouded in the shadow of war.