| You are in: Middle East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friday, 13 December, 2002, 11:01 GMT Iraq inspections: Week two ![]() Inspectors checked the al-Qaim plant on Tuesday BBC News Online lists the locations visited by United Nations teams in Iraq in the second week of weapons inspections: Tuesday 10 December Weapons inspectors carried out their first long-range mission, travelling 400 km to al-Qaim, once the site of a Uranium extraction plant.
A second team inspected a laboratory in the Abu Ghurayb suburb of Baghdad, which was associated with Iraq's biological weapons programme before 1991. Another group went to a plant belonging to Iraq's Chemical Industries General Company, at al-Furat 65 km south of the capital. A fourth team visited Ibn al-Haitham research facility in Wazireyah in a northern Baghdad suburb. Weapons experts also returned to the Tuwaitha site, 20 km south of Baghdad, to inspect it for a fourth time. Monday 9 December A team from Unmovic re-visited the industrial complex Fallujah, which they first inspected on Sunday. A second team from the IAEA went to the al-Tuwaitha nuclear facility, which they had visited twice last week. Sunday 8 December The 17-strong UN inspection team was reinforced when 25 more inspectors flew into Baghdad. A team of nuclear experts went to a geological studies centre at al-Sadun park in Baghdad while other specialists visited a major complex at Fallujah, north-west of the capital, which had specialised in chemical and biological arms. Saturday 7 December After a two-day break for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, one team of inspectors visited the al-Quds General Company for Mechanical Industries at al-Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad. The facility made medium-range missiles and bombs in the 1980s. The IAEA team went to the al-Tuwaitha facility south of Baghdad to check for uranium storage sites. Thursday 5 December and Friday 6 December: No inspections Wednesday 4 December A team of inspectors travelled to the al-Tuwaitha facility run by Iraq's nuclear power authority. A second group headed north to the al-Muthanna site which has been associated in the past with the production of mustard gas, sarin and other agents before it was demolished by earlier inspectors. |
Internet links: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Middle East stories now: Links to more Middle East stories are at the foot of the page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Links to more Middle East stories |
![]() | ||
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To BBC Sport>> | To BBC Weather>> | To BBC World Service>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © MMIII | News Sources | Privacy |