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Kurds help find wmd lab { May 7 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/international/worldspecial/07CND-PENT.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/international/worldspecial/07CND-PENT.html May 7, 2003 U.S. Tests Iraqi Vehicle Suspected as Mobile Weapons Lab By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON, May 7 — The Pentagon said today that American forces in Iraq are testing a trailer that they suspect the Iraqis operated as a mobile biological weapons laboratory. "The facility, this mobile production facility, came into our hands on the 19th of April at a Kurdish checkpoint near a place called Tallkayf in northern Iraq," Stephen Cambone, an Under Secretary of Defense, said this afternoon. The official emphasized that it was too soon to tell whether the trailer was "the smoking gun," or irrefutable evidence that Saddam Hussein's government indeed had weapons of mass destruction. But Mr. Cambone said the trailer appears to be the kind of mobile lab that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell described several months ago in a report to the United Nations Security Council. That report was delivered as the Bush administration sought justification to forcibly disarm Mr. Hussein's government. "The Kurds reported to us that the trailer may have been in the company of military vehicles prior to that, and along with a decontamination truck," Mr. Cambone said. The vehicles was painted in what appeared to be a military color scheme, Mr. Cambone said. He listed several characteristics that American military officials regard as suspicious: a fermenter, which could be used for growing cultures; gas cylinders to supply clean air for production, and "a system to capture and compress exhaust gases to eliminate any signature of the production." Mr. Cambone said that some of the equipment on the trailer could have been used for purposes other than producing biological weapons agents, but that American and British weapons experts have concluded, based in part on information from a defector, "that the unit does not appear to perform any function beyond what the defector said it was for, which was the production of biological agents." Although the findings were not conclusive as of today, and may not be for some time, they were nevertheless important, for the White House as well as the Pentagon. The Bush administration has repeatedly cited Mr. Hussein's supposed possession of deadly weapons as the basic reason for going to war to unseat him. And the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, has repeatedly been pressed on that point, as he was just today. "Well, we went to war, didn't we, to find these — because we said that these weapons were a direct and imminent threat to the United States," one reporter said at today's White House briefing. "Isn't that true?" "Absolutely," Mr. Fleischer replied. "One of the reasons that we went to war was because of their possession of weapons of mass destruction. And nothing has changed on that front at all." "We have always had confidence, we continue to have confidence that weapons of mass destruction will be found," Mr. Fleischer said. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company | Home | Privacy Policy | Search | Corrections | Help | Back to Top

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