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No, it´s not new. In November, the BND gave a statement in a secret meeting of the German parliaments committee for foreign affairs, according to opposition parliament members and informed the members of their knowledge. It is also given to the US intelligences (partnership) and some of these evidences were shown by Powell on Wednesday, too, the media has reported about one week ago. The first to call the German government to release the informations to the public was a CDU-politician, Friedbert Pflügler, who´s in the committee. They call Schröder to say the truth now. Schröder himself will explain his Iraq policy on Thursday in the parliament (similar to the SOTU, but with discussions following his report).

6 posted on 02/08/2003 3:15:09 AM PST by Michael81Dus (You have (had) G. Bush, J. Cash, B. Hope & S. Wonder - we have Schröder: no cash, no hope, no wonder)

Thank you for the information. It is very difficult to distinguish what the German public knows from what we know, given the poor reporting on both sides of the Atlantic.

It seems to me that if the German people were given more accurate information they would be demanding Schroeder change his position (or at least a good many would).

Michael: I posted this because it popped up on Yahoo after we talked about the release on the "Die Welt" site earlier today. It is easier for me to link to Yahoo

Is this the first time the news agencies in Germany have released this information to the public?

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