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...make chemical weapons "with help from unknown East and West German firms." This admission comes several weeks after authorities, prodded by the U.S., begin an official investigation and seize twelve boxes of IBI documents. Among them are letters of agreement between Imhausen-Chemie and the mysterious IBI -- Ihsan Barbouti International...
Question: Who is Ihsan Barbouti...
...disclosures in the West German press. The most detailed appeared last Thursday in the weekly Stern, which traced the Libyan project to I.B.I. Engineering, a now defunct firm. I.B.I. had set up an office in Frankfurt through which the firm's chief, an exiled Iraqi arms merchant named Ihsan Barbouti, 64, orchestrated the involvement of Imhausen and as many as 30 other firms and individuals from West Germany, Switzerland and Austria. At least some of the equipment shipped to Libya was ostensibly purchased by I.B.I. for a Hong Kong firm called Pen-Tsao, which has a Hamburg subsidiary founded...