A Mobile Bio-Weapons Lab?
WorldNetDaily has closeup photos of one of those mobile trailers discovered in Iraq: Is this one of Saddam’s mobile bio-weapons labs?
Photos obtained by WorldNetDaily from a U.S. Army source in Iraq offer a rare glimpse inside the trailer, which indicates the most likely use for the mobile unit was the production of biological agents and not hydrogen.
The internal components provide the kind of mobile biological weapons laboratory described to the United Nations’ Security Council by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell before the conflict began, and match in design and configuration the mobile weapons labs U.S. intelligence learned about several years ago from an Iraqi scientist.
The photos, more than 30 of which were of the inside trailer components, were verified by several military sources and were independently reviewed by intelligence sources familiar with pre-Gulf War Iraqi weapons programs.
The images show a large fermenter, several cylinders to supply clean air for production, canisters to “feed” biological agents, industrial heating machines and a system to capture and compress exhaust gas to eliminate traces of residue — a function not normally used for legitimate biological processes and certainly not for hydrogen production, analysts told WorldNetDaily.
A large stainless steel brewing canister can be seen toward the front of the laboratory, and would be used in the initial stages of agent production, analysts said.
Large pistons are connected to a compressor atop a storage tank that would hold the growing product and maintain a certain pressure on the system required to grow the bio agent at an advanced rate.