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Wednesday, may 14, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The military believes a second trailer discovered May 9 near Mosul, Iraq, is also a mobile biological weapons laboratory -- albeit an incomplete one, the commander of the 101st Airborne Division said Tuesday.

The lab was found at the al-Kindi Rocket and Missile Research and Development Center in northern Iraq, said Army Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus.

"The expert I talked to this morning said that he had a reasonable degree of certainty that this is in fact a mobile biological agent production trailer," Petraeus said Tuesday in a video teleconference with Pentagon reporters.

Kurdish troops stopped a similar trailer loaded with suspicious equipment at a checkpoint in northern Iraq in April. The layout is nearly identical to the first trailer that was found and seems to have been made in the same facility as the other trailer, Petraeus said.

"We do not believe that the lab trailer that we found here was completed. Several welds were not finished, and shipping plugs were still in place. And in addition, a water pump, forward air compressor, canvas cover and some of the piping were looted," Petraeus said.

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