Thailand reported its citizens had helped build a storage facility for nerve gas. Germany sentenced a businessman, Jürgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen, to five years in prison for involvement in Libyan chemical weapons.
Gaddafi's attempts to procure weapons of mass destruction began in 1972, when Gaddafi tried to persuade China to sell him a nuclear bomb in 1972. It was Gaddafi's first attempt to procure weapons of mass destruction.
