Bioterror scientists 'infiltrated UK university research facilities' By Andrew Johnson 17 November 2002 Iraqi scientists working on biological weapons infiltrated British research laboratories in the early 1990s, an Oxford scientist said last night. The revelations have led to calls for tighter vetting of overseas students. At least 10 Iraqi scientists were accepted by university laboratories in the run-up to the Gulf War in 1992. Andrew Mackinlay, a Labour member of the foreign affairs select committee, told a Radio 4 programme to be broadcast this week that Britain is "extremely vulnerable" to infiltration by foreign scientists looking to use UK research...