Word: inspector
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...take photos of themselves, but really taking photos of the Lamont Library’s bookbag checker with an extremely powerful telephoto lens. The idea was to fill a bookbag to the brim with photos of the person who inspects bags at Lamont. Upon searching for stolen books, said inspector would find only unauthorized self-portraits, dozens and dozens of them. This of course, would blow his freakin’ mind! And FM’s merry pranksters would be laughing all the way to the comedy bank...
...entire inspections exercise from 1991 to 1998 allowed Baghdad to perfect ways to thwart the hunters. "We taught them what we could find," says David Kay, a former nuclear inspector, "and they learned how to conceal a program that is going to be a lot smaller but a lot harder" to find now. One example, from the 1999 U.N. report: in 1991, a major in Iraq's Special Republican Guard, Izzadine al-Majid, was ordered to take critical components from Iraq's missile program and hide them at a villa. After nine months, the materials were moved by the Special...
...inspectors who are scheduled to begin arriving in Iraq this week will have some weapons of their own. They wield more advanced equipment, better intelligence and an all-access mandate to search sites previously kept off limits--not to mention a credible threat of military retaliation if Iraq fails to comply. Even as the inspectors have upgraded their technology and know-how, of course, Saddam has spent the past four years conjuring new ways of keeping his most prized weapons out of reach. "The case of Iraq has stimulated all these new [inspection] techniques," chief weapons inspector Hans Blix...
...coast instead of in a small bay in which it could have been contained," he says. ABS, says Wade, has reviewed its records on the Prestige and "can find nothing in the paper trail that would raise any cause for concern." The Rotterdam Harbor Authority's chief inspector, Henk ten Hoope, agrees. In a September 1999 inspection, he found "nothing wrong with the ship's structure," he says. "As far as we were concerned, it was perfectly seaworthy." Shipping sources in Athens - base of the Prestige's registered owners, Mare Shipping Inc., and manager, Universe Maritime Ltd. - call the vessel...
...what's at the top of the inspectors' to-do list? Not looking under Saddam's bed for hidden nukes - at least not right away. The C-130 UN transport plane carrying chief inspector Hans Blix and his team landed at Saddam International Airport with equipment for a more urgent task: industrial vacuum cleaners, to perform some desperately needed housekeeping at the inspectors' base in Baghdad...