Germany sold 8 mobile chemical labs to Iraq?

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[BlackJack]

Germany sold eight mobile laboratories to Iraq in the 1980s, reports the German-language New Zurich Newspaper.

According to a story in the Swiss paper yesterday, Iraq received the facilities for the purpose of producing biological and chemical weapons. Development expert Hans Branscheidt claims he personally saw the vehicles in action on several occasions in 1988, reports the paper.

"What is certain is that at least eight of these mobile laboratories were delivered from the Federal Republic of Germany to Iraq as late as the end of the eighties," Branscheidt is quoted as saying in the New Zurich Newspaper. According to the report, he also confirmed his comments to the Reuters news service.

Branscheidt also wrote in a column for the German-language Evangelical Press Service that the construction of an Iraqi research center for missile technology "became almost exclusively the work of German companies."

As WorldNetDaily reported, the German magazine Focus reported this month that German intelligence officials believe Iraq has truck-borne weapons labs for making chemical or biological weapons. The report also says that Iraq bought parts that could be used for the labs from German companies.

The head of Germany's intelligence service, August Hanning, told German legislators that the Iraqi government had even bought equipment for the laboratories in Germany, according to the Focus report. He said Baghdad had also attempted to buy material in Germany to build missiles.

Germany also may be involved with another "axis of evil" nation – North Korea.

Yesterday, the Washington Times reported that the North Korean ship that last year delivered Scud missiles to Yemen transferred a large shipment of chemical weapons material from Germany to North Korea recently, citing U.S. intelligence officials.

According to the Times report, the ship, the Sosan, was monitored as it arrived in North Korea earlier this month carrying a shipment of sodium cyanide, a precursor chemical used in making nerve gas. The vessel reportedly picked up the chemicals in Germany after unloading the missiles in Yemen.

[ApesForEvolution]

The people that claim Bush and America are Hitler and Germany are either retarded or communist subversives. One or the other.

[VaBthang4]

I dont understand why GW is keeping a lid on this stuff.

Colin Powell needs to stride into the UN and lay all of it out for the World to see. I dont care if it gets sources killed....it's time to tell the truth about our European confreres once and for all.

Let the chips fall where they may.

[Arthur McGowan]

So Germany is back in the gas business.

OVER SIX MILLION SERVED!

[Mo1]

Got a question .. Has the UN .. Blix or any of the inspector ever mention these mobile laboratories in any of their reports ?

[BlackJack]

Good question, the admin must know of these reports.

[ClancyJ]

Guess this war is going to be for gas.

[dixiechick2000]

"One or the other."

Possibly both.

[BlackJack]

Not to my knowledge, but I think they have mentioned mobile
labs vaguely in some statements.

[dixiechick2000]

Clever...;o)

[TLBSHOW]

The "most worrisome" discovery supposedly made by US intelligence was the existence of mobile biological weapons labs that are allegedly moved around the country on trucks and railroad cars to avoid detection. The evidence of the existence of these rolling labs came, he said, from Iraqi defectors.

The day before Powell’s speech, Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix dismissed the US claims of mobile laboratories, as well as the charge that Iraqis were moving prohibited materials out the back door as inspectors were coming in the front. He noted that the inspection teams perform extensive and sensitive tests, taking air, soil and water samples that would reveal traces of chemical and biological materials at a suspected site, even if the materials had been removed. Blix said that samples tested -- including at sites identified by US intelligence -- have provided no evidence of prohibited materials.

http://www.muslimedia.com/irq-powell.htm

[ApesForEvolution]

Nothing worse than a retarded communist...

[Mo1]

The day before Powell’s speech, Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix dismissed the US claims of mobile laboratories, as well as the charge that Iraqis were moving prohibited materials out the back door as inspectors were coming in the front.

Well I guess that answers my question ..

[tubebender]

Could they be here...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/846384/posts

[Gorons]

Remember that guy,

"I'M MAD AS HELL AND IM NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!"

WHY oh WHY did the UN do this?!?!

Obviously so Saddam could hide these mobile labs!!! Your thoughts?! (Read below)

WorldNetDaily: U.N. alerted Iraq
before U-2 flights

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Tuesday, February 18, 2003

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EYE ON THE GULF
U.N. alerted Iraq
before U-2 flights
Baghdad asked that authorities be warned 48 hours before launch

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Posted: February 18, 2003
7:00 p.m. Eastern

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© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

The United Nations gave Iraq 48 hours warning before it launched U-2 spy planes in support of weapons inspectors, according to an Israel radio report cited by the Jerusalem Post.

A U.N. weapons inspections team spokesman said Iraq requested that its authorities be given notice two days in advance of the flights, which began yesterday.

Inspection team spokesman Hiro Ueki said in Baghdad today that resumption of the flights signaled that Iraq's cooperation with the inspectors was improving, the Associated Press reported.

The spokesman said conditions for the flights are very similar to an agreement made under a former inspection regime in the 1990s.

The weapons inspectors have hailed the flights as fulfillment of a major demand, and Baghdad maintains it is giving the U.N. its full cooperation.

The United States and Great Britain, however, accused Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of concealing weapons of mass destruction and plan to press this week for a Security Council resolution that would authorize force against Iraq, according to diplomats.

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[Mo1]

Yes I read that and the 48 hour notice and flight plan is nothing but a joke

Saddam is making complete fools out of the UN, Blix and the inspectors

[Porterville]

I've heard that the french sold the diggers that allow the Iraqi's to hide stuff under ground.

[blondee123]

Yes I read that and the 48 hour notice and flight plan is nothing but a joke

What good are the spy planes if everything is hidden underground?

[BamaFan69]

That's why the German's got on-board with NATO... What are we going to find out about the French ?