Trailers were not WMD labs:

A British inquiry into two truck-trailers found in northern Iraq has found they are not mobile germ warfare labs, the Observer reported yesterday. Instead, they were for the production of hydrogen to fill weather balloons.

A British scientist and biological-weapons expert, who examined the trailers in Iraq, told the London-based weekly: “They are not mobile germ warfare laboratories.

“You could not use them for making biological weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the Iraqis said they were: facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons.”

The Observer reported the British sold Iraq an artillery-balloon system in 1987. Hydrogen-filled balloons, filled and launched from a mobile platform, are used for determining wind speed and direction at altitude to help in targeting artillery. The Globe and Mail [props to cs]