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U.N. Weapons Inspectors Resume Work in Baghdad
Aired December 22, 2002 - 10:32 ET
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RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: In the Iraqi capital, U.N. weapons inspectors resumed their work today. CNN's Rym Brahimi is with us from Baghdad to talk more about the ongoing search.
And Rym, do we know what facilities and what areas of the country the inspectors were at today?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Renay, they've actually been going in very different directions. Again, a lot of sites visited today in the Iraqi capital. Now, one of them that was visited by experts in the missile field was a space technology research center. That was visited -- that was a site that was declared previously by Iraq but that hadn't been visited yet by the U.N. inspectors.
Now, a lot of other sites were visited. The nuclear experts went to three different sites today. The -- another team of missile experts went to a military industrial complex. Another team visited a vaccine facility. Another team visited a water facility. They've really been intensifying the face going in many different directions, Renay, in the capital, outside of the capital. There's more than 100 of them in town right now, Renay. So they're really, really able to do some fast work compared to before when they used to be able to only go to two sites a day because there was only something like 20 of them in town.
Now, at the same time, Renay, as this huge war of words has erupted over Iraq's weapons declaration, well, the president of Iraq met with a Belorussian envoy saying that the world needs to know that Iraq does not have any weapons of mass destruction. The president was shown on Iraqi TV and reportedly said to his interlocutor, the Belorussian envoy, that Iraq had complied to the request of the international community by letting the inspectors in to prove it was clean of weapons of mass destruction. And despite this, the U.S. was intent on attacking it. And that if Iraq were to defend itself then, that was legitimate -- Renay.
SAN MIGUEL: Rym Brahimi, another full day of news coming out of Iraq. Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad, thank you very much for that report.
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Aired December 22, 2002 - 10:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: In the Iraqi capital, U.N. weapons inspectors resumed their work today. CNN's Rym Brahimi is with us from Baghdad to talk more about the ongoing search.
And Rym, do we know what facilities and what areas of the country the inspectors were at today?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Renay, they've actually been going in very different directions. Again, a lot of sites visited today in the Iraqi capital. Now, one of them that was visited by experts in the missile field was a space technology research center. That was visited -- that was a site that was declared previously by Iraq but that hadn't been visited yet by the U.N. inspectors.
Now, a lot of other sites were visited. The nuclear experts went to three different sites today. The -- another team of missile experts went to a military industrial complex. Another team visited a vaccine facility. Another team visited a water facility. They've really been intensifying the face going in many different directions, Renay, in the capital, outside of the capital. There's more than 100 of them in town right now, Renay. So they're really, really able to do some fast work compared to before when they used to be able to only go to two sites a day because there was only something like 20 of them in town.
Now, at the same time, Renay, as this huge war of words has erupted over Iraq's weapons declaration, well, the president of Iraq met with a Belorussian envoy saying that the world needs to know that Iraq does not have any weapons of mass destruction. The president was shown on Iraqi TV and reportedly said to his interlocutor, the Belorussian envoy, that Iraq had complied to the request of the international community by letting the inspectors in to prove it was clean of weapons of mass destruction. And despite this, the U.S. was intent on attacking it. And that if Iraq were to defend itself then, that was legitimate -- Renay.
SAN MIGUEL: Rym Brahimi, another full day of news coming out of Iraq. Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad, thank you very much for that report.
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