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...going anywhere soon. "I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel," says Jürgen Elfers, a retail analyst at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. In Germany, Wal-Mart discovered a surprising weakness: it couldn't export one of its biggest advantages - high-volume logistical know-how. There was trouble synchronizing warehouse data systems, and the Americans say they were surprised by the lack of sophistication of German distribution. "It's a very immature market in Germany. We haven't been able to use our tools," says John Menzer, head of the company's international division...
...country, too. More than 80 German companies, plus research laboratories and individuals, are listed in Iraq's weapons report to the U.N., German daily Die Tageszeitung reported. For almost 30 years, companies such as Daimler-Benz, Siemens and Carl Zeiss allegedly supplied equipment, raw materials and technical know-how which could have been used for Saddam Hussein's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. Although the paper also named companies from the U.S., France, the U.K., China and Russia, German firms made up more than half of those in the report. And despite the 1990 U.N. weapons embargo on Iraq...
...campaign has emphasized the combination of Darst’s business know-how and Simon’s council track record. Darst and Simon promise to streamline the council’s bylaws, reducing what they view as unnecessary and ineffective debate...
...buried in wells or stored in residential basements. The Iraqis could be shuffling tiny quantities of biotoxins around as if playing three-card monte. Labs can be kept in movable, undetectable vans. Saddam doesn't even have to stockpile lethal weapons if he can just hold on to the know-how for brewing them...
...will have some weapons of their own. They wield more advanced equipment, better intelligence and an all-access mandate to search sites previously kept off limits--not to mention a credible threat of military retaliation if Iraq fails to comply. Even as the inspectors have upgraded their technology and know-how, of course, Saddam has spent the past four years conjuring new ways of keeping his most prized weapons out of reach. "The case of Iraq has stimulated all these new [inspection] techniques," chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, 74, the Swedish head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission...