Iraqis 'staggered' by exhaustive list of demands from UN inspectorsMattress and slipper factories among sites Blix weapons team insists on examiningBy Kim Sengupta in Baghdad The dinner between one of Saddam Hussein's closest aides and Hans Blix was meant to smooth the thorny path for the renewed United Nations weapons inspections. But the Iraqis were bemused to find sponge mattresses and slippers on the menu. Factories producing such items were just two of the examples of the array of sites the UN chief weapons inspector said his team intended to search in its efforts to discover whether Saddam Hussein is...
