German paper critical of conditions in which troops stationed in Kuwait.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

German troops stationed in Kuwait to help in the event of an attack using weapons of mass destruction do not have the means to analyse warfare agents themselves, but would have to send samples off to laboratories for analysis. There are also concerns that silence on the subject of whether or not they have been given smallpox vaccines could mean they would be vulnerable to such an attack. The following is the text of a Knut Peters report by the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag web site on 19 January entitled "Even the Fuchs cannot analyse biological weapons; in the event of an attack on Kuwait, German soldiers must first send …