Posted on 02/02/2003 6:11:05 AM PST by knighthawk
GERMANY'S intelligence service believes Iraq has mobile laboratories capable of developing and producing chemical and biologial weapons, according to a German weekly magazine.
The laboratories are hidden in trucks that appear completely normal from the outside, Focus magazine says, quoting the results of an investigation by the intelligence service, BND.
A BND spokesman was not immediately available for comment on the report.
Focus says BND officials gave details about the laboratories to the foreign affairs committee of the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in November.
The head of the BND, August Hanning, told the deputies the Iraqi government had even bought equipment for the laboratories in Germany, Focus says. He said Baghdad had also attempted to buy material in Germany to build missiles.
The weekly said the deputies had promised not to reveal the information given to them by Hanning. But some members of the conservative opposition have pressed the Social Democrat government to publish the BND findings, or at least hand them over to the UN Security Council.
In a rare statement, the BND said yesterday it had, "with the government's consent, transmitted to the UN weapons inspectors information that it had gathered about Iraq".
Becuase they sold them to Iraq.
Germany provided chemical, biological warfare mobile labs to Iraq in the late 80's
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