Truckey Could Be Linked to Iraq Bioweapons

World | May 29, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

The discovery of two Iraqi truck trailers equipped with fermenters is the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein had a biological weapons program, a U.S. intelligence report said Wednesday. But officials still have found no such weapons. The report by the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency comes as the Bush administration faces pressure to prove its justification for the war - that Saddam had to be disarmed of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs that were an imminent danger. "Examination of the trailers reveals ... an ingeniously simple, self-contained bioprocessing system," the report says. "Both trailers we have found probably are designed to produce BW agent in unconcentrated liquid slurry." "BW" is for "biological weapons." U.S. officials believe Iraqi leaders were interested in developing mobile fermentation units for such weapons.

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