High points of SZ article

The Cliff's Notes, so to speak. We shouldn't assume that this one article provides a complete picture.

• The information for the SZ article and the ARD program segment came from a high-ranking German security official, and from at least one Pentagon source.
• Two BND staffers stayed in Baghdad and provided the U.S. military with information.
• The cooperation was explicitly approved by Ernst Uhrlau (coordinator of intelligence services in the Chancellor's office) and August Hanning (president of the BND).
• Unnamed sources in security circles said ["Aus Sicherheitskreisen hieß es ..."] it was a political decision of the SPD/Green government.
• The German security official said that it wasn't a decision by a department head.
• The BND mission was to inform the Americans of targets that shouldn't be bombed.
• U.S. sources paint a different picture: the BND provided direct support in the acquisition of targets.
• At American request, a BND staffer personally inspected a target area in Mansur where Saddam Hussein was said to be in a motorcade. Two buildings were then bombed, and twelve people died.
• BND staffer awarded American decoration along with the pilot of the Mansur mission.