'Vegetating in Solitude'; No WMD? One jailed Iraqi scientist is not a bit surprised.

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Byline: Joshua Hammer, With Mark Hosenball in Washington

In the run-up to the Iraq war, Gen. Amer al-Saadi was the ubiquitous voice and face of Iraq's scientific establishment. An urbane, white-haired figure who spoke impeccable English, he famously challenged Britain and the United States to provide "one single [shred of] concrete evidence to support" claims that Iraq was hiding unconventional weapons. "I have always told the truth about these old programs," Saddam Hussein's top scientific adviser said in an interview with German TV last April. "The future will show it." After...

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