Dentist claims Mossad is behind scientist killings

Basil Adas, Gulf News

A large number of professors at Baghdad universities are fleeing the country, fearing abduction and assassination by anonymous armed groups (...) According to official figures released by the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 289 university professors were killed in the last three years, from all sects and ethnic groups. This indicated that the killings were carried out on the ground of scientific identity. (...) Fakhri Al Qaisi, assistant dean of the College of Dentistry, told Gulf News: "Professors in all medical departments are panic-stricken, while many others, have fled to neighbouring and other countries." "It is noted that most dentistry section professors have received letters of threat. The assassinations are linked to Israeli Mossad," Al Qaisi said. He claimed that that the Iraqi National Congress Party began abducting physicians and university professors after the US occupation, a time when assassinations increased dramatically and that the party was backed by the Mossad...

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