They freed Dr. Anthrax and Dr. Germ. Where's Baghdad Bob?

An Iraqi lawyer said the 24 or 25 officials from Saddam's government were released from jail without charges, and some have already left the country.

"The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in December 2004, but hasn't been enforced until after the elections in an attempt to ease the political pressure in Iraq," said the lawyer, Badee Izzat Aref.

Among them were Rihab Taha, a British-educated biological weapons expert, who was known as "Dr. Germ" for her role in making bio-weapons in the 1980s, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, known as "Mrs. Anthrax," a former top Baath Party official and biotech researcher, Aref said.

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Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, would say only that eight individuals formerly designated as high-value detainees were released Saturday after a board process found they were no longer a security threat and no charges would be filed against them.

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Last time I saw him was when he was on some (I think) Syrian talk show looking like he'd aged 20 years.

They are no longer most wanted. Must not have been able to come up with charges against them.

Even the US gov. can't just keep Dr. Germ in jail indefinitely simply for sneezing on someone.

I apologize for shouting, but this disturbs me. A lot. We know who these people are and what they are capable of, yet we're letting them out of jail and telling them to flee to another country - so we can lose track of them and their activities??

Oh yeah, I feel so much safer now.

And, we keep 100's of people in prisons for no reason but let these yahoos go??

WHO THE F IS IN CHARGE HERE??????????

but I suspect we do know what lies our own government is capable of telling us.