WRAP UN inspectors raid house of Iraqi scientist, Iraqi briefing

Описание: (16 Jan 2003)

1. Various shots following UN vehicles to an Iraqi scientist's house in the middle class Baghdad suburb of Razaliya
2. Various shots of inspectors that have arrived at the scene
3. Various shots of UN inspectors looking at the house
4. Mid shot of bank of media
5. Neighbourhood children watching inspectors, chanting slogans including "Saddam, confront America!"
6. Nuclear scientist Shaker el-Jibouri standing before the media
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Shaker el-Jibouri, Iraqi Nuclear Scientist:
"They (the UN weapons inspectors) dug in every corner of the house - furniture, refrigerators. Everything in the house - they checked it."
Question: They took out a box. Was that your personal belongings as well?
Answer: "Yes. It was normal papers. They searched the box and they saw it. Papers on depleted uranium. I worked on depleted uranium. They saw it. You know, everyone knows that depleted uranium is out of Iraq."
8. Various of onlookers on the side of the road
9. Wide shot of Iraqi scietific presidential adviser Amir al-Saadi's news conference
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Iraqi scietific presidential adviser Amir al-Saadi's
"Let me just quote what he said: We have found several cases where it is clear that Iraq has imported weapons-related material in violation of prohibitions of the security council, unquote. OK lets let's look at that. They did not find - we declared it. It is in our declaration. That's point one. Second, everybody knows that we have a military industry. We produce weapons from bullets to handguns, artillery, and artillery guns as well. How do we produce these, from thin air? No. We import material. We are allowed to produce these things under the security council resolution, but countries are not permitted to export if they are convinced that they shouldn't - that's their business. And it's not something that we are violating. It is a country that exports to Iraq something knowingly and is violating that."
11. Close up cutaway of cameraman
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Iraqi scietific presidential adviser Amir al-Saadi's
"We did not encourage them to open their homes. This is a matter left entirely to their discretion. They want to allow the inspectors in - fine. But id they didn't we wouldn't encourage them to open their homes or even ask them to."
13. Amin walking down the corridor (++MUTE++)

STORYLINE:

United Nations (U.N.) inspectors on Thursday found 11 empty chemical warheads in "excellent" condition at an ammunition storage area where they were inspecting bunkers built in the late 1990s, a U.N. spokesman reported.

They had not previously been declared by Iraq.

A 12th warhead, also of a 122 mm caliber, was found that requires further evaluation, according to the statement by Hiro Ueki, the spokesman for U.N. weapons inspectors in Baghdad.

The warheads were found during a visit by inspectors to the Ukhaider Ammunition Storage Area, 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Baghdad.

It was one of several sites inspectors checked on Thursday.

Inspections at the homes of physicist Faleh Hassan and his next-door neighbour, nuclear scientist Shaker el-Jibouri, were the first at private houses.

After the end of the six-hour visit, a visibly angry el-Jibouri told reporters the inspectors spent two hours in his home, and cordoned it off for much longer, looking into everything, including furniture.

Hassan, carrying a box of documents, got into a U.N. car with Dimitri Perricos, a team leader among the U.N. experts, and an Iraqi liaison officer.








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