Acting on tips from the U.S. about labs disguised as food-testing trucks, he investigated: "Two food-testing trucks have been inspected and nothing has been found," he said. A former senior UNSCOM inspector told the Los Angeles Times last September that his inspection teams searched for the labs from 1993 to 1998. "I launched raid after raid," he said. "We intercepted their radio traffic. We ran roadblocks. We never found anything. It was just speculation."
http://www.fourthfreedom.org/php/print.php?hinc=dossier_report.hinc
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, maybe the mobile labs do exist. But this is hardly an established fact.

b) "The British government [has learned] that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Comment: Wrong verb. What he should have said is the Brits assert this but have produced no evidence of its veracity. The Brits have offered no date for these efforts, but "recently," in this case, may well mean "the 1980s." IAEA director Mohamed Elbaradei has for weeks been asking - so far, in vain - for the U.S. and Britain to provide "specifics of when and where." He said in a Jan. 12 interview, "We need actionable information." (Interview cited by Rangwala in his invaluable
"Counter-Dossier II,". http://traprockpeace.org/weapons.html