New U.N. Team in Iraq to Check Nuclear Sites
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — A new U.N. nuclear inspection team arrived Saturday to test President Saddam Hussein’s promise of full cooperation, and another team finished destroying Iraq’s last-known ballistic missiles.
The nuclear team leader, Demetrius Perricos, said his 37-member group from 22 countries will spend a week investigating reports of a secret cache of nuclear weapons-making equipment and allegations of other nuclear sites.
Under the cease-fire accord, Hussein promised to cooperate with the United Nations to identify and destroy all nuclear, chemical or biological weapons material and some long-range ballistic missiles.
Most of the ballistic missiles and equipment declared by Iraq was destroyed last week by a 21-member U.N. team led by U.S. Army Col. Douglas Englund.
The team supervised the demolition of 61 Scud missiles, 10 mobile launchers, two fixed launchers, nine liquid-fuel transporters and eight missile transport vehicles, Englund said.
The last were destroyed Saturday.
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