Germany sold 8 mobile chemical labs to Iraq?

WorldNetDaily ^

[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.

[Mo1]

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

Good point .. plus .. What good are spy plane when the enemy know when and where the will be flying

[Mr. Mojo]

So Germany is back in the gas business. ...OVER SIX MILLION SERVED!

And they've found someone else to do their dirtywork for them.

[CyberAnt]

Oh, so these are the "mobile labs" which Blix said did not exist - okay!!

[Siobhan]

So Gerhard Schröder is actually Adolf Hitler, Jr.

Expose the evil and cast it out! Powell and W. must make this public so it can be used to bring down the SDP government in Germany as well as the primary purpose of revealing what Iraq is hiding from the UN and their darling Hans Blindx.

[Gorons]

Some historic German flags thanks to google ...











Some things never change ...

[blondee123]

The enemy seems to know a lot, especially since we all know that the inspectors may not all be "honest"! It's all a farce, time to end it!

[xzins]

that will happen after the war.

shroeder and chirac are doomed in the free world.

I doubt it'll cause a whisper in their socialist states.

[Rain-maker]

Scientists: We have evaded the brainless twit Hans Blix, oh great leader.

 

Saddam: Good, remember if they find you, kill them all or I kill you all.

 

Scientist: My Lord, we need more black pox cultures from chancellor Schröder too.

 

Saddam:  I have the Krauts by the balls, this will be no problem...muhahahahaha.

 

Scientists: Zeig heil Hussein mein führer, over and out.

[Goodlife]

I hope this doesn't influence Germany's opinion on whether we should go to war against Iraq.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Guess this war is going to be for gas.

Germany: "But the gas was only for use against the Juden..."

[Lion's Cub]

Giving them 48 hours notice before the flight can actually be useful to us.

We don't really need the U2--we have satellites to watch them with. When we announce the U2 flights, we can use the satellites to see what they are moving where.

It may not be the ideal situation for us, but I would never discount American ingenuity. We'll get them, one way or the other.

[Lion's Cub]

fyi

[GOPJ]

bump

[VOA]

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

My ephiphany abou the anti-freedom/anti-Dubya protestors was this:

The protestors think that Colin Powell is more evil than Saddam.

(And to think that Powell probably is the man who saved Saddam and his regime by advising
Papa Bush that it was time to call off the dogs given the gorey spectacle of "the highway of Death".)

[babble-on]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

[aristeides]

These mobile labs were apparently sold to Iraq in the late 80's. That was when U.S. policy was to support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. So I don't see why this is explosive news about Germany. But it does serve to corroborate what Powell and the U.S. government have been saying about the mobile labs in Iraq.

[Arthur McGowan]

Welcome to FR, Technoir. Just think, in 24 hours, you will have been here one day!

[Lion's Cub]

Yes, we did support him against Iran. But the difference is that once we discovered how evil he is, we abandoned him as an ally and tried to contain him and limit the damage he could do. Germany didn't.

And as far as us supporting him initially, people forget that there really aren't any "good guys" in power in that region. Our choices were very limited.