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Article: UN arms experts search Iraqi space site for banned weapons
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 23, 2002
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UN arms experts search Iraqi space site for banned weapons
BAGHDAD, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- UN arms inspectors on Sunday visited
a space research and development center in their searches for
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, their spokesman Hiro Ueki said
in a statement.
A team of missile experts from the United Nations Monitoring,
Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) paid their
unannounced visit to the Al Battanee Center in Baghdad, which "
provides the telemetry systems for the Al Samoud missile system."
This center is a scientific group engaged in "space technology,
space optics, atmospheric studies and remote sensing," Ueki said.
Another missile team inspected the ...