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To: JohnM who wrote (87103)3/27/2003 7:42:49 PM
From: Elsewhere  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
If not, do you know of any other evidence that the German govt might have known? Of wmd?

There are only small traces. Here's a link to an article of the free journalist Ronald Ofteringer, about 60 KB:

Irakische Vernichtungswaffen und industriestaatliche Proliferation: Die UN-Komission für Irak (UNSCOM) und die Bundesrepublik
(Iraqi WMD and industrial proliferation: the UN commission for Iraq and the Federal Republic of Germany)
coli.uni-sb.de

According to Ofteringer (who in turn quotes Hussain Kamil al-Majid and UNSCOM) 70% of Iraqi nerve agent plants and 90% of Scud improvement technology was supplied by German companies. But the Kohl government was always very evasive, and a lot of information is still classified.

Here's an article with more information on the Russian involvement in Iraqi WMD:

The Wall Street Journal March 27, 2003
The Russian Strain
online.wsj.com