Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Digs Fail To Verify Iraq Warheads
> BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Despite extensive excavation,
> U.N. arms experts have not yet accounted for all the
> warheads filled with biological agents that Iraq says
> it destroyed and buried in 1991, the director of the
> U.N. office here said Sunday.
>
> Nils Carlstrom, a Swedish major general who heads the
> Baghdad Monitoring and Verification Center, said the
> U.N. inspectors would return soon with safety gear to
> resume the search for the warheads.
>
> Carlstrom refused to say how many warheads have not
> been accounted for at the site outside Baghdad.
>
> He said verifying the Iraqi claim that all were
> destroyed will take a ``much longer time than
> previously thought.''
>
> Iraqi officials have said that 77 warheads were filled
> with biological agents and that the United Nations has
> accounted for 70 of them.
>
> U.N. inspections were launched in 1991 to oversee the
> destruction of Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear
> weapons as well as long-range missiles.
>
> The U.N. Security Council has said it will not lift
> punishing trade sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990
> invasion of Kuwait, until U.N. inspectors verify that
> Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction.
>
> A month's work by U.N. inspectors in search of the
> warheads ended March 12. Some of the searches involved
> sophisticated metal detectors, Carlstrom said.
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