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U.N. Inspectors View Presidential Site

Aired December 03, 2002 - 11:33   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, the inspectors in Iraq made a key move. They inspected one of Saddam Hussein's presidential sites today, and our senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson, is joining us now live from Baghdad with the very latest on that move -- hello, Nic.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Leon. Well, the very latest from the inspectors here, they say at that presidential palace, they were able to visit every room and inspect every corner of that presidential palace building. Now, they took about an hour and a half to two hours to do that. The Iraqi officials who let the journalists in after the inspectors left, showed the journalists one of the presidential palace buildings. It was a large, ostentatious building, marble hallways, big chandeliers, but really for the journalists going in, no idea what it was exactly the inspectors were looking for.

And that has been very symptomatic of a situation here, Leon. While the U.N. inspectors are saying -- as Kofi Annan said, there seems to be good cooperation, we don't really know what it is exactly they've been looking for, what they may have found, what may have been missing from what they were looking for, so Day Six has been an unprecedented day, but really very few details about what progress the inspectors are making there, Leon.

HARRIS: Nic Robertson reporting live this morning from Baghdad. Thank you very much, Nic. We'll check back with you later on.

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Aired December 3, 2002 - 11:33   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, the inspectors in Iraq made a key move. They inspected one of Saddam Hussein's presidential sites today, and our senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson, is joining us now live from Baghdad with the very latest on that move -- hello, Nic.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Leon. Well, the very latest from the inspectors here, they say at that presidential palace, they were able to visit every room and inspect every corner of that presidential palace building. Now, they took about an hour and a half to two hours to do that. The Iraqi officials who let the journalists in after the inspectors left, showed the journalists one of the presidential palace buildings. It was a large, ostentatious building, marble hallways, big chandeliers, but really for the journalists going in, no idea what it was exactly the inspectors were looking for.

And that has been very symptomatic of a situation here, Leon. While the U.N. inspectors are saying -- as Kofi Annan said, there seems to be good cooperation, we don't really know what it is exactly they've been looking for, what they may have found, what may have been missing from what they were looking for, so Day Six has been an unprecedented day, but really very few details about what progress the inspectors are making there, Leon.

HARRIS: Nic Robertson reporting live this morning from Baghdad. Thank you very much, Nic. We'll check back with you later on.

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