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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/specialreports/iraq/s_204373.html

U.N. inspectors prepare to return to Iraq within days



By The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 21, 2004


CAIRO -- U.N. inspectors will return to Iraq in the coming days following an official invitation from the new government, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Tuesday.
Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters in Cairo that Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari had formally asked his agency to return.

The inspectors, who will continue their work to ensure that Iraq complies with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, will leave as soon as safety arrangements have been made, agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said from IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria. ElBaradei estimated they would depart in the next few days.

The inspectors will go to the Tuwaitha facility, 12 miles south of Baghdad, where they will "do an inventory verification on the nuclear material remaining in Iraq," Fleming added.





Besides safeguards inspectors, the agency also had weapons inspectors in Iraq who searched for nuclear weapons under a mandate issued by the U.N. Security Council. Those inspectors left just before the war began in 2003.

"The return of U.N. inspectors to Iraq is an urgent necessity; not to search for weapons of mass destruction, but to write the final report about the nonexistence of (such) weapons ... in Iraq, which will enable the lifting of sanctions," ElBaradei said in Cairo.


41 posted on 07/20/2004 11:24:31 PM PDT by ambrose (Kerry is endorsed by the Communist Party USA)
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Sorry I don't believe the story. Nuclear Warheads don't grow on trees.


89 posted on 07/20/2004 11:37:19 PM PDT by Terp (Retired living in Philippines were the Mountains meet the Sea in the Land of Smiles)
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To: ambrose

Would be poetic justice to see the nuclear weapons found AFTER the UN issues the report that none existed.


393 posted on 07/21/2004 5:48:33 AM PDT by Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
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To: ambrose

LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

We all need to remember this.

It's still a DANGEROUS situation over there. Lets just wait and see.


518 posted on 07/21/2004 1:57:15 PM PDT by Vets_Husband_and_Wife (Don't be a Girlie-Man... vote Republican!)
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