Wait a minute? Weren't these two pretty far up there in that deck of cards? What the hell is going on?
U.S. forces in Iraq are freeing "Dr Germ and "Mrs. Anthrax," two of Saddam Hussein's leading biological warfare experts, following the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, lawyers said on Monday....Uh huh. Because Al Qaeda couldn't use some germ warfare expert. Right? What kind of botched job did they do arresting this woman and/or letting her go? We were told she was Attila the Hun. Dr. Germ. Now we're just letting her go?
Baghdad lawyer Badia Aref said Taha and Ammash were among 26 senior detainees in the process of being released. U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson said eight "high-value detainees" had been freed on Saturday, and were among 27 senior prisoners judged to be eligible for release.