[eyespysomething]

So the citizens, even if they didn't know what was being buried, did notice the large amount of heavy equipment doing something. And there's a smell.

And this was done pre-1998, before the inspectors left?

[jveritas]

Yes it happened before 1998 in fact it happened before 1995 since Hussein Kamal the former head of the Iraqi M.I.C was killed by Saddam in 1995. This may have happened just before the inspectors came to Iraq in late 1991.