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UN Arms Inspectors Concludes First Site Inspection

The UN weapons disarmament mission Wednesday finished their first inspection of a suspect military compound in the eastern suburb of Baghdad after nearly four-year suspension.

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The UN weapons disarmament mission Wednesday finished their first inspection of a suspect military compound in the eastern suburb of Baghdad after nearly four-year suspension.

After the three-hour inspection, the arms experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency, left the military site, about 20 km to the east of the capital and headed for their headquarters on the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad by car.

Earlier in the morning, the UN arms inspectors started their first field mission in Iraq in four years under UN Resolution 1441.

The weapons inspectors arrived here Monday afternoon, the first back in Iraq since UN arms inspectors withdrew in 1998.

Continuous spats about alleged espionage activities between Iraq and the UN arms inspectors, who were commissioned to verify that Iraq has been disarmed, led to crisis in 1997 and 1998, and eventually the air war against Baghdad on Dec. 17-19, 1998.

The inspectors have since been barred from entering Iraq again. Iraq's first real test will come on Dec. 8, when it will be obliged by UN Security Council Resolution 1441 to submit a full account of its weapons programs, although it insists it has no biological, chemical or nuclear arms.

"Further material breach" of Iraq's obligations would incur "serious consequences," the UN document adopted on Nov. 8 warned.

By Jan. 27, the inspectors must give their first report to the UN Security Council.

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