BERLIN, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- German opposition parties on Friday agreed on an agenda for the parliament to probe into allegations that German agents helped United States during the 2003 Iraq war.

    Representatives from the Free Democratic P arty (FDP), the Greens and the Left Party fixed the agenda and deputies of the parties are expected to sanction it on Tuesday.

    Parliament could start its investigation next week into the role of the German foreign intelligence agency (BND) in Iraq.

    The New York Times reported last week that from early 2003 through the American invasion of Iraq, a German intelligence officer stationed in the office of American commander Tommy R. Frank in Qatar and passed on to the U.S. information gathered in Baghdad by two German spies.

    The BND admitted that one of its agents worked alongside the U.S. military at its operations command center during the war, but it denied that its agents had passed on any information to the Americans.

    It confirmed the report that the German officer made 25 reportsto the Americans, answering 18 of 33 specific requests for information made by the United States during the first few months of the Iraq war.

    The agency said that the information relayed to the Americans always went through the BND headquarters in the southern German town of Pullach near Munich and had no relevant military value.

    It said the decision to station an intelligence officer in Qatar from early 2003 through the invasion on March 20, 2003 was approved by the Gerhard Schroeder government.

    The newspaper also said the U.S.-German intelligence-sharing arrangement was made and approved in late 2002 by officials including then German foreign minister Joschka Fischer and his successor Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who served as Schroeder's secret service coordinator.

    Last week, the German government unveiled an investigation report saying that the two German spies in Iraq during the war didnot pass information on bombing target but information on civilianfacilities to avoid being attacked.

    But opposition parties pressed for a full investigation into the affair after the New York Times report.

    Schroeder's government strongly opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Enditem