GERMANY INVESTIGATES MILITARY TRADE WITH IRAQ

LONDON [MENL] -- German authorities have conducted arrests and searches ofcompanies suspected of aiding Iraq's military programs. So far, 20 German companies have been raided or searched in what isbeing called the biggest investigation of links with Iraq's military machinesince the 1991 Gulf war. Investigators are trying to determine whether thecompanies have helped Iraq's conventional and nonconventional militaryprograms.