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Between April 20, 2003 and April 30, 2003: Pentagon Experts Conclude Suspicious Iraq Trailer Is a Mobile Biological Weapons Factory

2003-04-20

The Pentagon sends three chemical and biological weapons experts to Iraq to examine a suspicious looking trailer recently discovered by US troops (see May 9, 2003). With the help of British experts, the team reportedly determines that the trailer is a mobile biological weapons factory. [New York Times, 5/21/2003]