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Weapons Inspectors Visit Six Sites in Iraq

Aired January 14, 2003 - 06:04   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: While U.S. troops head to the Persian Gulf, let's get the latest on the U.N. inspectors in Iraq. Our Rym Brahimi joins us live from Baghdad with that.
And, Rym, I understand the inspectors are getting more intelligence now.

RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that may be the case. They have been definitely asking for more intelligence from the United States. They seem to have been focusing, interestingly enough, in the past couple of days and again today on missile sites, sites that are associated in the past and today with missile activities that Iraq is involved in.

One team also went into a warehouse that belongs to the air force, and another team headed to a compound that houses also the National Monitoring Directorate, but they went to a company that's involved with food and agriculture.

Well, meanwhile, an interesting trend in the past few days, and maybe weeks as well, Carol, the Iraqi officials seem to have been complaining slightly increasingly of the inspectors and the inspection process. It began with this issue of inspectors gathering intelligence, according to Iraqi officials, and now, of course, they've been coming up recently with other things. For instance, the other day, they said that -- they complained that the inspectors have frozen sites and prevented everybody from leaving, and that was a huge problem for a lot of the employees.

Yesterday, the inspectors went to a university. The Foreign Ministry's daily statement on the inspectors complained that when they left, the inspectors drove back over the pavement on the wrong side of the road, endangering the students in the university.

So, there seems to be a trend there of increasing complaints with regards to the inspection work.

Meanwhile, of course, Iraq continues to maintain it has no weapons of mass destruction, in the view of its foreign minister -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad this morning.

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Aired January 14, 2003 - 06:04   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: While U.S. troops head to the Persian Gulf, let's get the latest on the U.N. inspectors in Iraq. Our Rym Brahimi joins us live from Baghdad with that.
And, Rym, I understand the inspectors are getting more intelligence now.

RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that may be the case. They have been definitely asking for more intelligence from the United States. They seem to have been focusing, interestingly enough, in the past couple of days and again today on missile sites, sites that are associated in the past and today with missile activities that Iraq is involved in.

One team also went into a warehouse that belongs to the air force, and another team headed to a compound that houses also the National Monitoring Directorate, but they went to a company that's involved with food and agriculture.

Well, meanwhile, an interesting trend in the past few days, and maybe weeks as well, Carol, the Iraqi officials seem to have been complaining slightly increasingly of the inspectors and the inspection process. It began with this issue of inspectors gathering intelligence, according to Iraqi officials, and now, of course, they've been coming up recently with other things. For instance, the other day, they said that -- they complained that the inspectors have frozen sites and prevented everybody from leaving, and that was a huge problem for a lot of the employees.

Yesterday, the inspectors went to a university. The Foreign Ministry's daily statement on the inspectors complained that when they left, the inspectors drove back over the pavement on the wrong side of the road, endangering the students in the university.

So, there seems to be a trend there of increasing complaints with regards to the inspection work.

Meanwhile, of course, Iraq continues to maintain it has no weapons of mass destruction, in the view of its foreign minister -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad this morning.

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