UN Inspectors Search 7 Iraqi Sites for Banned Weapons

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UN Inspectors Search 7 Iraqi Sites for Banned Weapons

UN arms inspectors on Saturday visited seven sites in Iraq in their almost daily hunting for prohibited weapons of mass destruction, their spokesman Hiro Ueki said in a statement.

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UN arms inspectors on Saturday visited seven sites in Iraq in their almost daily hunting for prohibited weapons of mass destruction, their spokesman Hiro Ueki said in a statement.

A team of biological experts from the United Nations Monitoring,Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) went to the Yaffa Juice Plant of the National Food Industries Co. in Baghdad's Zafaraniyah industrial area.

"This company is self-financed and has a mixed ownership. It is a previously declared and monitored site, due to the presence of some dual-use equipment," Ueki said.

Another biological team returned to the Al Kindi Veterinary Vaccines site as a follow-up to the previous inspection carried outon Dec. 22.

Some UNMOVIC missile experts paid their unannounced visit to theAl Qaib Warhead-Filling Factory in the Al Qa Qaa complex, which "undertakes filling of warheads of Al Samoud and Al Fatah missiles."

An UNMOVIC chemical team, supported by several members of the missile and biological teams, inspected the Ibn Younis Center, which was a mechanical design establishment in Baghdad.

The site was located within a large compound occupied by other companies and institutions, including a regional office of the ruling Bath Party, and the whole compound was inspected by the UN arms experts, Ueki said.

Also on Saturday, other inspectors carried out their field operations separately in the Hadre Air Force Munitions Test Site near Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, and two private trading companies.

Currently there are 105 inspectors in Iraq, 99 of whom are from the UNMOVIC and six from the IAEA.

They must give their first report to the UN Security Council about Iraq's weapons programs by a Jan. 27 deadline.

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