Word: inspectorate
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BAGHDAD: Former Marine captain Scott Ritter successfully inspected Iraqi weapons sites Friday, accompanied by the standard Iraqi escorts. It was business as usual for the UNSCOM inspector, whose branding as a spy by Baghdad reignited the inspection crisis in January -- and that means Kofi Annan's deal with Saddam has passed its first test...
However, Bob Bracey, a Cambridge health inspector, said that poorly cleaned ducts failed to allow grease to escape, leading to the fire...
...potentially wreak havoc on civilian populations, they're considered inefficient, especially when delivered by Saddam Hussein's favorite transport, the Scud. "The Scud is an inaccurate weapon and the wind has to be just right," says Thompson. Still, Israel is taking notice. Statements by the chief U.N. weapons inspector that Iraq has enough biological or chemical arms to "blow away Tel Aviv" has elicited Pentagon-like tough talk from Israeli officials. "Surely Iraq must know that it will not pay to attack Israel," government spokesman David Bar-Ilan told Reuters. Israelis are being told to obtain gas masks nonetheless...
BAGHDAD: Time is running out in the Gulf. Iraq has enough biological weapons to "blow away Tel Aviv," and is playing tricks to hide them ? that's the word from Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector. Indeed, as the U.S. continues its buildup of hardware in the Persian Gulf, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says an attack is at least a week away...
...Richard Butler reheat a souffl?? The Iraq weapons-inspection standoff, which looked set to explode into war last November, has been edged off front pages despite remaining unresolved. Now the chief U.N. weapons inspector looks set to bring the crisis once more to a head by demanding access to a "presidential" site deemed off-limits by Baghdad...