According to
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/7277871.htm
The Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein's long-range missile
program has fled to neighboring Iran, a country identified as a
state sponsor of terrorism with a successful missile program and
nuclear ambitions, U.S. officers involved in the weapons hunt told
The Associated Press.
....
Experts long feared the collapse of Saddam's rule could lead to
the kind of scientific brain-drain the United States tried to
prevent as the former Soviet Union collapsed. But the Bush
administration had no plan for Iraqi scientists and instead
officials suggested they could be tried for war crimes.
"There are a couple hundred Iraqis who are really good scientists,
particularly in the missile area," said Jonathan Tucker, a former
U.N. inspector now with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at
the Monterey Institute in California. "In the chemical and
biological areas, their work wasn't state of the art but it was
good enough to be of interest to other countries."
This is a dangerous negligence, even if this particular report is
wrong and even if the people concerned do not do work that is `state
of the art'. The nub is that the US government did not take care of
people who have worked on chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons,
and who as a consequence, may go to work for enemies.
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