US finds mobile bio-weapons lab in Iraq

United States forces in Iraq are doing tests on a trailer that matches the description of a mobile biological weapons laboratory given by various sources including defectors, the Pentagon said tonight.

It is the first time the Defence Department has announced it might have evidence of the sort of prohibited unconventional weapons programme that justified the United States forcibly disarming Saddam Hussein.

“On the smoking gun, I don’t know,” Under-secretary of Defence Stephen Cambone said, when asked whether this was a breakthrough in the continuing coalition search for weapons of mass destruction.