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UN Inspectors Find Small Missile Mold in Iraq

United Nations weapons inspectors Monday found a mold for making small missiles during their weapon hunting in Iraq, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.

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United Nations weapons inspectors Monday found a mold for making small missiles during their weapon hunting in Iraq, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.

A biological team of the United Nations Monitoring, Verificationand Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) visited the al-Nidaa State Company, 18 km southeast of Baghdad, and found the mold, the Iraqi official news agency said.

The Iraqi side presented technical explanations for this mold, 30 cm in diameter, INA quoted a source from Iraq's National Monitoring Directorate as saying.

The Iraqi side also agreed to present more details about the mold later, it added.

The team also found a modified warhead of Luna missile, the range of which is within 70 km, INA said. The warhead is damaged and the head of the biological team said that the warhead has no relation with the banned programs.

This kind of modification was mentioned in the comprehensive report on missiles which was delivered to the previous UN Special Commission in 1996, and in the declaration that Iraq presented to the UNMOVIC on last Dec. 7, according to INA.

Iraqi officials said that UN weapons inspectors searched at least nine sites on Monday, which also included al-Salam State Company in Taji, al-Qa'qaa military compound, al-Quds missile factory, a medicine college, and the University of Technology. All of these sites are near or in Baghdad.

A chemical team also inspected a detergent factory in Baiji, 200km north of Baghdad.

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