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Inspectors Ranks Bolstered in Baghdad
Aired December 16, 2002 - 06:14 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Nearly 100 experts are now involved in the search, and they are fanning out in force.
CNN's Rym Brahimi joins us live from Baghdad with the latest.
They're everywhere today, aren't they -- Rym?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Carol. It's been harder and harder for us to actually catch up with them because there's splitting up in teams of 10 or 11, and it's just really hard to go and follow them everyday as we used to.
What's happening, though, is mainly three sites that we know of so far, Carol, one of them a site that used to produce missiles, long- range missiles that are now prohibited. Iraq isn't allowed to produce missiles longer than 150 kilometer range, but they're probably going to check that what was destroyed by the previous U.N. team has remained in that state and that whatever equipment may have been sealed off or tagged at the time is still like that.
Now they also -- there's a team that went to an oil refinery, Carol. It's a refinery that's on the outskirts of Baghdad. That falls into the dual use category. You know those are the plants, if you will, that have equipment that could potentially be used for military purposes but that are, in fact, used for civilian purposes. And I imagine they will want to check that they are being used for civilian purposes, not anything else.
And there's another biotechnical institute, I understand, another team has gone (ph) in there. And another team has been to a site -- the nuclear experts have been to a site they visited before. So a lot of different directions, but basically the same goal, establishing a data of what is there, what was left by the previous team, what was destroyed that remains destroyed, what was sealed by the previous U.N. inspection that Iraq is not using or that stays in its place -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad this morning.
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Aired December 16, 2002 - 06:14 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Nearly 100 experts are now involved in the search, and they are fanning out in force.
CNN's Rym Brahimi joins us live from Baghdad with the latest.
They're everywhere today, aren't they -- Rym?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Carol. It's been harder and harder for us to actually catch up with them because there's splitting up in teams of 10 or 11, and it's just really hard to go and follow them everyday as we used to.
What's happening, though, is mainly three sites that we know of so far, Carol, one of them a site that used to produce missiles, long- range missiles that are now prohibited. Iraq isn't allowed to produce missiles longer than 150 kilometer range, but they're probably going to check that what was destroyed by the previous U.N. team has remained in that state and that whatever equipment may have been sealed off or tagged at the time is still like that.
Now they also -- there's a team that went to an oil refinery, Carol. It's a refinery that's on the outskirts of Baghdad. That falls into the dual use category. You know those are the plants, if you will, that have equipment that could potentially be used for military purposes but that are, in fact, used for civilian purposes. And I imagine they will want to check that they are being used for civilian purposes, not anything else.
And there's another biotechnical institute, I understand, another team has gone (ph) in there. And another team has been to a site -- the nuclear experts have been to a site they visited before. So a lot of different directions, but basically the same goal, establishing a data of what is there, what was left by the previous team, what was destroyed that remains destroyed, what was sealed by the previous U.N. inspection that Iraq is not using or that stays in its place -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad this morning.
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