The World : More Firms Linked to Libya
More than 100 firms from West Germany, Europe and the United States helped build the chemical plant in Libya that Washington says is intended to produce poison gas, the head of a West German company said. He did not identify any of the firms. Ernst Pieper, chief of the state-owned Salzgitter AG concern, said in an interview with the newsmagazine Der Spiegel that because so many firms were involved in constructing the plant at Rabta, near Tripoli, it is possible no single company could have known its ultimate use. “ . . . In the end, none of the firms had a true overview for the whole project,” Pieper was quoted as saying.
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