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Inspectors to Conduct Aerial Searches
Aired January 02, 2003 - 08:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: U.N. inspectors are about to add a new dimension in their hunt for banned weapons. In the next few days, helicopters will be used to conduct aerial searches. Rym Brahimi is in Baghdad with the latest -- Rym, hello.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn. Well, yes, that use of helicopters was supposed to happen yesterday. It didn't in the end, but we are told to expect that in the coming days.
Meanwhile, inspectors still on their very intensive search around the country. At least five teams were out today. They seemed to have been focusing today on military industry and the air force. One team checking on a research and development center for missiles and rockets, and then a couple of teams -- one went to a warehouse of the Iraqi air force and another one to a company that belonged to the Iraqi state, and that makes drones for the Iraqi air force.
Now, in the middle of all of that, a lot of headlines in the newspapers, the main one hailing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statements with regard to Iraq saying he is comfortable with the level of cooperation Iraq has provided the U.N. weapons inspectors, and also saying he didn't see any grounds for a military attack against Iraq right now.
Now, at the same time, quite a bit of frustrating -- frustration expressed at the United Nations Security Council, which one newspaper has actually branded the American Security Council. I'll be back in an hour, Daryn, to tell you more about those frustrations, and about what Iraq's vice prime minister says about the U.S. military buildup in the region -- Daryn.
KAGAN: All right, Rym. We will look forward to that report, and talk more in the next hour.
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Aired January 2, 2003 - 08:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: U.N. inspectors are about to add a new dimension in their hunt for banned weapons. In the next few days, helicopters will be used to conduct aerial searches. Rym Brahimi is in Baghdad with the latest -- Rym, hello.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn. Well, yes, that use of helicopters was supposed to happen yesterday. It didn't in the end, but we are told to expect that in the coming days.
Meanwhile, inspectors still on their very intensive search around the country. At least five teams were out today. They seemed to have been focusing today on military industry and the air force. One team checking on a research and development center for missiles and rockets, and then a couple of teams -- one went to a warehouse of the Iraqi air force and another one to a company that belonged to the Iraqi state, and that makes drones for the Iraqi air force.
Now, in the middle of all of that, a lot of headlines in the newspapers, the main one hailing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statements with regard to Iraq saying he is comfortable with the level of cooperation Iraq has provided the U.N. weapons inspectors, and also saying he didn't see any grounds for a military attack against Iraq right now.
Now, at the same time, quite a bit of frustrating -- frustration expressed at the United Nations Security Council, which one newspaper has actually branded the American Security Council. I'll be back in an hour, Daryn, to tell you more about those frustrations, and about what Iraq's vice prime minister says about the U.S. military buildup in the region -- Daryn.
KAGAN: All right, Rym. We will look forward to that report, and talk more in the next hour.
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