Friday, January 17, 2003

Inspectors Find Empty Warheads in an Iraqi Depot
Experts on the arms team, as well as intelligence analysts in Washington and other capitals, rushed to determine whether the warheads had been listed in the voluminous weapons declaration Baghdad presented to the United Nations in December.

The team took X-rays of one warhead and collected samples for chemical testing, he said.

Lt. Gen. Hussam Muhammad Amin, the top Iraqi liaison to the weapons teams, expressed "astonishment" over the hubbub about the warheads, saying they were short-range shells imported in the late 1980's. He insisted that they were registered in the declaration.

He said that the boxes containing the munitions were covered with dust, and that the warheads were empty.

"No chemical or biological warheads," he said at a news conference, "just empty rockets which are expired and imported in 1988."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/international/middleeast/17IRAQ.html?pagewanted=all&position=top

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