LAT/AP: Potential Arms Material Missing in Iraq, U.N. Says

Potential Arms Material Missing in Iraq, U.N. Says
From Associated Press

June 3, 2005

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday.

In the report to the U.N. Security Council, Demetrius Perricos, the world body's acting chief weapons inspector, said he had reached no conclusions about who had removed the items or where they went.

He said the material could have been moved to elsewhere in Iraq, sold as scrap, melted down or purchased.

The U.N. weapons inspectors commission previously reported the discovery of some equipment and material from the sites in scrap yards in Jordan and the Dutch port of Rotterdam.

Perricos said imagery analysts had identified 109 sites where varying amounts of equipment were removed, up from 90 reported in March.
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