Reuters: US freeing Saddam's 'Dr. Germ' and 'Mrs. Anthrax'

Reuters reports: "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."

I thought they were two of the worst terrorists we'd captured?