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U.S. Military Investigates Possible Iraqi Bioweapons Lab

The Defense Department investigates the contents of a trailer it says may have been used as a mobile biological weapons lab. A U.S. official says the trailer, recovered April 19 near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, has all the equipment of a lab, but that preliminary tests have not turned up any evidence of banned biological agents. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

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Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based senior editor-correspondent for NPR's National Desk.
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