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Day 5 of Inspections
Aired December 02, 2002 - 07:06 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Baghdad on the ground in Iraq, where inspectors searching again today -- in fact, Nic Robertson traveling with one of the inspection teams.
Rym Brahimi is live from Baghdad, though, to tell us what's happening now, as we come to the end of week No. 1.
Rym -- hello. Good afternoon to you there.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Bill.
Well, the team that Nic Robertson, our senior correspondent, was following has actually just left the factory that they were visiting. Now, that factory that's in the center of Baghdad, it's been a six- hour visit. It's I think the longest that we've seen so far since they began their inspections last week.
Now, they were visiting this factory, which was believed to have been making in the past missile guidance systems for these long-range missile, or SCUDs, known as the al-Husayn missiles.
Now, we understand that the other team of inspectors went to a distillery on the outskirts of Baghdad. So, basically visiting a place where they're making alcoholic beverages. We'll have to wait for them to come back to update us further on that.
At the same time that these inspections are being carried out, Bill, well, the foreign minister has issued a statement to the United Nations secretary-general complaining about the United States and British air raids, saying that they're perpetrating state terrorism -- this, after major bombings yesterday in the south, in the southern no- fly zones here.
Bill, as you may have heard, there were -- the U.S. Central Command actually said that it was retaliating for what it said were hostile acts in the north of Iraq by bombing the south. And we understand at least four people were killed and 27 wounded from the Iraqi state news agency -- Bill.
HEMMER: Rym, thanks -- Rym Brahimi again in Baghdad.
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Aired December 2, 2002 - 07:06 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Baghdad on the ground in Iraq, where inspectors searching again today -- in fact, Nic Robertson traveling with one of the inspection teams.
Rym Brahimi is live from Baghdad, though, to tell us what's happening now, as we come to the end of week No. 1.
Rym -- hello. Good afternoon to you there.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Bill.
Well, the team that Nic Robertson, our senior correspondent, was following has actually just left the factory that they were visiting. Now, that factory that's in the center of Baghdad, it's been a six- hour visit. It's I think the longest that we've seen so far since they began their inspections last week.
Now, they were visiting this factory, which was believed to have been making in the past missile guidance systems for these long-range missile, or SCUDs, known as the al-Husayn missiles.
Now, we understand that the other team of inspectors went to a distillery on the outskirts of Baghdad. So, basically visiting a place where they're making alcoholic beverages. We'll have to wait for them to come back to update us further on that.
At the same time that these inspections are being carried out, Bill, well, the foreign minister has issued a statement to the United Nations secretary-general complaining about the United States and British air raids, saying that they're perpetrating state terrorism -- this, after major bombings yesterday in the south, in the southern no- fly zones here.
Bill, as you may have heard, there were -- the U.S. Central Command actually said that it was retaliating for what it said were hostile acts in the north of Iraq by bombing the south. And we understand at least four people were killed and 27 wounded from the Iraqi state news agency -- Bill.
HEMMER: Rym, thanks -- Rym Brahimi again in Baghdad.
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