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Article: Inspectors Search Hussein's Complex; Safes Opened in Buildings Near Palace
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- The Washington Post
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- January 16, 2003
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U.N. arms experts entered a vast riverfront palace compound
containing President Saddam Hussein's main office to search two high-
security buildings today, intensifying their hunt for evidence of
banned weapons programs less than two weeks before they must report
their progress to the U.N. Security Council.
The nearly four-hour search of the grounds of the Republican
Palace, a sprawling and secretive complex that serves as Iraq's White
House, was the inspectors' most significant incursion into the
nucleus of Hussein's government since they resumed their activities
here seven weeks ago. Hussein uses the palace to receive foreign
visitors and to hold formal government events.
Although the ...