Word: ibis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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August 1988: IBI closes down its Frankfurt office...
February 1985: Imhausen-Chemie, a major West German chemical-supply company, contracts with a Frankfurt firm called IBI to supply certain materials for the technology park...
...Bonn government discloses that its intelligence services warned nine years earlier that Gaddafi could be preparing to 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...
...Barbouti's IBI had set up a network of offices stretching from Europe to Asia. In West Germany, where export-license rules have been hopelessly lax (but now, belatedly, are undergoing revision), he signed up Imhausen-Chemie as chief subcontractor for the project. Intelligence officials say Barbouti's newly opened offices in Hong Kong helped arrange a complex scheme by which material was sent to Imhausen's representative in Hong Kong and transshipped to Rabta. In this way, they explain, Barbouti managed to avoid arousing suspicions about Gaddafi's real intent...