May 8, 2003	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 5, 1424

WASHINGTON, May 7: The United States claimed on Wednesday that its forces in Iraq had found a trailer used by the toppled government of President Saddam Hussein as a mobile biological weapons laboratory.

The announcement was made by Stephen Cambone, undersecretary of defence for intelligence, during a Pentagon briefing. Mr Cambone said no actual germ warfare agents have yet been discovered in the lab, but added that the trailer would be disassembled and searched extensively for evidence of weapons.

Cambone said a “mobile production facility” painted in a military color scheme came into the hands of US forces on April 19 near Tall Kayf.—Reuters