
Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash (born 1953) was an Iraqi scientist who was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council of Ba'athist Iraq from 18 May 2001 to 19 April 2003 and a scientist involved in Saddam Hussein's WMD program.
Biography[]
Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash was born in 1953 in Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family. Ammash earned a PhD in microbiology from the University of Missouri, and in May 2001 she was appointed a member of the Revolutionary Command Council of Ba'athist Iraq, and she helped to rebuild the biological weapons program of Iraq that had suffered following the Gulf War. On 9 May 2003 she turned herself in to the United States occupying forces during the Iraq War, but in December 2005 she was released alongside Rihab Taha, as they did not pose security threats anymore.