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German government says Iraq probe “anti-American”

The German government, facing allegations its spies in Iraq secretly abetted the U.S. invasion that Berlin publicly opposed, resisted calls on Friday for a parliamentary inquiry it said would fan anti-Americanism. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Baghdad-based agents of the BND intelligence service had stuck to clear instructions not to pass on operational military information to the Americans at the start of the U.S. invasion in 2003. Full Story