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So Berg, using a webcam and a laptop, could have transmitted anything he wanted to from a tower near the prison to anywhere in the world?

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Xinhua News Agency
NOVEMBER 17, 1994, THURSDAY

Feature: A System Closer Than A Spider's Web --UNSCOM Monitoring System in Iraq
by zhang dacheng

Baghdad

Three grey and white pigeons were startled to leave a roof beam of a bright and spacious workshop when a group of correspondents came to visit Nasr machinery factory Tuesday. Over there are the surveillance cameras installed by the United Nations Special Commission on destroying and monitoring Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (UNSCOM), said Aref Kardoori, 41-year-old director of the factory which was located opposite to a military camp at Taji area some 30 kilometers north of Baghdad.
The gate of the factory was guarded by soldiers with heavy machine guns and many high installations were painted with anti-air raid green camouflage. Sitting on the some 50-meter-long beam, six blue colored video cameras and two photo cameras were vigilantly staring at a row of giant digital control vertical drilling machines. A bunch of black cables connecting with the cameras crawled from the beam into a room at the corner in the workshop and there was an entrance warning board on the wall of the room whose door was locked by a steel wire with an IAEA (the international atomic energy agency) lead sealing. Kardoori said that the room was a monitoring station which was indefinitely visited by the U.N. weapons inspectors for analyzing the tape and photos taken by the cameras.
Outside the workshop and in front of a small white house, there stood a 10-meter-high silver colored metal pole holding a yellow disc receiver of one-meter diameter. In the house, a gun shell like metal cylinder was under testing at a hydraulic test table which was under the surveillance by a video camera. The video camera was connected by cables with two sets of Kooltronic brand electronic equipment whose doors were all sealed by black plastic strips with the word UNSCOM on them.
"This camera can be remotely controlled and can round-the-clock send signals to the U.N. monitoring headquarters in Baghdad," Kardoori said, adding that there was another kid of surveillance devices that could give an alarm to the headquarters any time when the machines under surveillance were turned on or moved about.
Since its foundation in 1988 by the Iraqi Military Industry Commission, the Nasr machinery factory, with a large number of advanced machines imported from Britain, Germany and other European countries, had made a great contribution to the development of Iraq's arsenal of mass destruction weapons. Under the U.N. Resolution 687 which ended the 1991 Gulf War, the factory was allowed to produce the missiles with a range less than 150 kilometers. Following the total destruction of Iraq's biological, chemical, nuclear weapons and long-range missiles by nearly 100 teams of U.N. weapons experts in three years, the UNSCOM established on august 1 a weapons monitoring and verification center in the canal hotel in the outskirts of Baghdad.
Commanded by Goran Wallen, a 61-year-old retired Rear Admiral of the Royal Swedish Navy, the center can round-the-clock receive and analyze all the information collected through a 90-meter-high communication tower at the hotel which remotely controls all the video and photo cameras, sensors, tape recorders and other surveillance devices installed at a about 750 weapons-related industry sites and installations throughout the country. The center also has an access to the latest information from the United States' U-2 high altitude reconnaissance planes based in neighboring Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the surveillance satellite which keeps a routine flying over Iraq. Dozens of resident weapons inspectors at the center regularly take samples from the water, the soil and the air around the sites.
"Such a monitoring system is organized even closer than a spider's web," said a liaison officer from the Iraqi Military Industry Commission.
As a focus of the pro-and-con sanctions struggle, the weapons field has been witnessing endless confrontations between Iraq and the U.N. inspectors. Iraq demands lifting or easing the sanctions as a reward for its destruction of the U.N.-banned weapons and acceptance of the long-term monitoring system, while the UNSCOM led by Rolf Ekeus delayed for many times the official starting of the system, one of the most advanced systems in the worldwide disarmament field.
It is expected that after Iraq's recognition of Kuwait last week, Baghdad will enhance its efforts for an early beginning and a short trial period of the U.N. monitoring system in a bid to win an early lifting of the four-year-old U.N. sanctions which have inflicted great sufferings to the 18 million Iraqis.