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Day 5 of U.N. Weapons Inspections in Iraq; Baghdad Factories Toured for Missile Head Development
Aired December 02, 2002 - 05:02 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: U.N. weapons inspectors are on day five today. They've been looking at what's believed to be a military industrial complex in the center of Baghdad.
Our Rym Brahimi is tracking the inspectors' movements and she joins us live now from the Iraqi capital -- good morning, Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Indeed, in the center of Baghdad, that was what they went to see today. It's a factory, Carol, a factory that is believed to be making missiles or maybe parts of missiles, those parts that actually establish the guidance systems and the control systems for missiles.
Now, it's believed that in the past that same factory may have contributed to making guidance systems for long range missiles, but that's still something we're going to update you on.
Now, as you know, since the Gulf War, Carol, Iraq is not allowed to produce missiles with a longer range than 150 kilometers. So it'll be up to the inspectors to then tell us what they've found and what they haven't found at that site.
The second site, we understand, has been visited this morning, Carol, is a distillery not far from, on the outskirts of Baghdad, as well, and that, again, we'll find out how, you know, what the link is. We understand that obviously distilleries may have been contributing, at one point they could be considered dual use. So they could be considered as something that can potentially be used to make chemical weapons but that could also be used for civilian purposes.
Now, at the same time as these inspections are being carried out, Carol, well, these inspections yesterday in particular were overshadowed by some raids in the no fly zones. We understand from the U.S. Central Command that the U.S. and British warplanes were responding to hostile acts in the north of Iraq by bombing southern cities or what they say were southern military installations here in Iraq.
Now, we heard from the official Iraqi news agency here that several people were killed in those raids and the South Oil Company said that actually three of its employees were killed in one of its administrative buildings -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, thanks for bringing us up to date.
Rym Brahimi reporting live from Baghdad.
And you can get an insight into the work of the inspectors later this morning. Former U.N. weapons inspector Terrence Taylor will be the guest at 7:30 Eastern time on AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN.
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Factories Toured for Missile Head Development>
Aired December 2, 2002 - 05:02 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: U.N. weapons inspectors are on day five today. They've been looking at what's believed to be a military industrial complex in the center of Baghdad.
Our Rym Brahimi is tracking the inspectors' movements and she joins us live now from the Iraqi capital -- good morning, Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Indeed, in the center of Baghdad, that was what they went to see today. It's a factory, Carol, a factory that is believed to be making missiles or maybe parts of missiles, those parts that actually establish the guidance systems and the control systems for missiles.
Now, it's believed that in the past that same factory may have contributed to making guidance systems for long range missiles, but that's still something we're going to update you on.
Now, as you know, since the Gulf War, Carol, Iraq is not allowed to produce missiles with a longer range than 150 kilometers. So it'll be up to the inspectors to then tell us what they've found and what they haven't found at that site.
The second site, we understand, has been visited this morning, Carol, is a distillery not far from, on the outskirts of Baghdad, as well, and that, again, we'll find out how, you know, what the link is. We understand that obviously distilleries may have been contributing, at one point they could be considered dual use. So they could be considered as something that can potentially be used to make chemical weapons but that could also be used for civilian purposes.
Now, at the same time as these inspections are being carried out, Carol, well, these inspections yesterday in particular were overshadowed by some raids in the no fly zones. We understand from the U.S. Central Command that the U.S. and British warplanes were responding to hostile acts in the north of Iraq by bombing southern cities or what they say were southern military installations here in Iraq.
Now, we heard from the official Iraqi news agency here that several people were killed in those raids and the South Oil Company said that actually three of its employees were killed in one of its administrative buildings -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, thanks for bringing us up to date.
Rym Brahimi reporting live from Baghdad.
And you can get an insight into the work of the inspectors later this morning. Former U.N. weapons inspector Terrence Taylor will be the guest at 7:30 Eastern time on AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN.
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