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Team
s of United Nations inspectors fanned out across Iraq today and
over the weekend to continue their probe of facilities for possible
evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
Biological experts from the UN Monitoring, Verification and
Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) inspected the Ibn Seena Centre, a
facility for the production of veterinary drugs, according to a UN
spokesman in Baghdad. Another team of missile inspectors went to an
Iraqi army base far south of Baghdad, where it started tagging
Iraq's Al Fatah ground-to-ground solid propellant rockets. The
remaining Al Fatah rockets, now in the possession of the Iraqi
army, will be tagged in the course of this week.
A chemical team returned to Falluja III, which is part of the Al
Tariq Company, primarily a pesticide formulation plant and which
was previously inspected twice last month, spokesman Hiro Ueki
said. Meanwhile, a multidisciplinary team inspected the maintenance
section of the Al Fao Company, which is responsible for the repair
of engines, pumps and compressors used by the water-treatment and
other industries.
A team based in Mosul inspected the Free Trading Zone Commission
(FTZC), which is affiliated with the Ministry of Finance and is an
independent investment commission located in the Filfayl
area.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducted an
inspection of several locations at the Tuwaitha site, including the
Nuclear Physics Academic Research Centre, the Physics Research
Materials and Electronics Studies Centre, and the Laser and Plasma
Research Centre. Inspections were conducted in order to ascertain
the level of activity at these locations.
On Sunday, UNMOVIC teams inspected a chemical and petroleum
research centre, as well as a factory that contributes to some
Iraqi missile programmes with the development of fuses, Mr. Ueki
said. Another team of inspectors returned to the Al Mamoun Plant to
finish tagging equipment related to solid propellant production,
while other inspections were carried out at the Al Rasheed Central
Military Medical Laboratory and the Al Rasheed Military Hospital
located in a complex owned by the Ministry of Defence.
Teams in Basra and Mosul inspected educational institutions that
belong to Basra University and the Ibn Sina Teaching Hospital,
respectively, while another team of inspectors visited the Al
Aziziyah Firing Range, where certain proscribed munitions were
previously stored.
The IAEA, meanwhile, inspected the Saddam Graphite Plant, which has
a project to manufacture graphite electrodes for use in induction
arc furnaces for the country's iron and steel industry.
On Saturday, UNMOVIC teams inspected chemical and biological
facilities, as well as the Shayk Mahzar Airfield located in the
southern no-fly zone. IAEA inspectors went to the Al Mamoud plant,
which manufactures composite propellant fuel for missiles, and the
Al Aboor SE Plant, which refurbishes machine tools and produces
spare parts for the civilian and military sector - UN News.
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