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...Once the offices get a good cleaning, the next order of business is setting up computers, file cabinets and laboratories. Then the inspections can actually commence. The 20 inspectors who stayed behind in Baghdad after Blix's departure Thursday will be joined by another 20 inspectors on Nov. 25. Their first inspection mission is scheduled for Nov. 27, but it will be the end of the year before the 100-person team envisioned by Blix is fully up and running...
...Blix's three-day visit to Baghdad was not an inspection mission but a diplomatic one. Blix, as head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and Mohammed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, held a preliminary meeting with Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri. Then they had two rounds of talks with Saddam's point man, Lt. Gen. Amer Saadi, a British-educated engineer who once headed Iraq's weapons programs...
...Blix wanted to do the Iraqi government the courtesy of explaining what arrangements he was making to resume the inspections. He told the Iraqis that UNMOVIC will need to expand its base in Baghdad and open a field office in the northern city of Mosul. The Iraqis in turn gave the inspectors a list of approved hotels where the inspectors could stay...
...General Saadi's team wasted no time in quizzing Blix about Resolution 1441. They worried about how they would be able to come up with a full declaration of Iraq's potential weapons inventory by the Dec. 8 deadline imposed by the Security Council. The Iraqis said that they have no concerns about the reporting requirements for nuclear and biological weapons. But they are concerned that because Iraq has a large chemical industry, it will be difficult to identify each instance where chemicals could theoretically be developed into bombs in the future...
...Blix's meetings at the Foreign Ministry, the Iraqis were surprisingly amicable. "During the last inspection phase, things got nasty," an inspections official told me afterwards. "There was none of that this time. It was cordial and informal, like a conversation. They spared us the diatribes...