The U.S. State Department says some 120 Iraqi scientists, who worked on weapons program, are now working in other fields.
Department spokesman Richard Boucher told a briefing in Washington that a U.S.-sponsored program that began last year had successfully employed these scientists for work in fields other than making weapons.
The U.S. stipend, he said, also allowed the scientists to stay in touch with their peers in the United States and exchange information with them in their fields.
The program encourges them to work on projects inside Iraq.
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