http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/153762-7958-010.html
> Suspicious material moved out of Iraq > Equipment tagged by weapons inspectors before the war turns up in the > Netherlands. > The New York Times > June 10, 2004 > > UNITED NATIONS -- Equipment and material that could have been used to > produce banned weapons and long-range missiles have been removed from Iraqi > sites since the war started and shipped abroad, the head of the U.N. > inspectors office told the Security Council on Wednesday. > > Demetrius Perricos, deputy to the former chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, > and now the acting executive chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification > and Inspection Commission, told a closed session of the council that many of > the items bear tags placed by U.N. inspectors naming them as materials > having the suspected capabilities for creating harmless consumer products as > well as unconventional weapons. > > Perricos accompanied his briefing with a report showing satellite photos of > a fully built-up missile site near Baghdad in May 2003, and the same site > denuded in February 2004. > > His spokesman, Ewen Buchanan, said that items removed from the site included > fermenters, a freeze drier, distillation columns, parts of missiles and a > reactor vessel -- all tools suitable for making biological or chemical > weapons. > > "It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is > it now and what is it being used for," Buchanan said. > > Another photo showed an engine from a banned SA-2 surface-to-air missile > that had been tagged by the United Nations in 1996 and recently discovered > in a scrap yard in Rotterdam, the port city in the Netherlands. > > The report said that workers there had told inspectors from the monitoring > commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency that as many as 12 > such engines may have passed through the yard in January and February, and > additional items made of stainless steel and other corrosion-resistant metal > alloys with the inscriptions "Iraq" and "Baghdad" had been observed since > November 2003. > > "This is only a snapshot," Buchanan said. Two inspectors, he said, acting on > information from the Netherlands, went to scrap yards in Jordan this past > week and found 20 more such engines in addition to tagged processing > equipment such as chemical reactors, heat exchangers and a solid propellant > mixing bowl. >
