IRAQ: IRAQI GUARDS ARREST TWO MEN THREATENING U.N. ARMS INSPECTORS AS INSPECTORS CONTINUE THEIR WORKVISITING VARIOUS SITES
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IRAQ: IRAQI GUARDS ARREST TWO MEN THREATENING U.N. ARMS INSPECTORS AS INSPECTORS CONTINUE THEIR WORKVISITING VARIOUS SITES
- Title: IRAQ: IRAQI GUARDS ARREST TWO MEN THREATENING U.N. ARMS INSPECTORS AS INSPECTORS CONTINUE THEIR WORKVISITING VARIOUS SITES
- Date: 25th January 2003
- Summary: (U2) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 25, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. CU UNITED NATIONS FLAG 0.07 2. SLV IRAQI SECURITY GUARDS STRUGGLING WITH SUSPECT 0.36 3. SLV PEOPLE WATCHING 0.41 4. LV/SV SUSPECT BEING TAKEN AWAY BY SECURITY GUARDS (3 SHOTS) 1.12 (U3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 25, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 5. SLV U.N VEHICLES LEAVING U.N HEADQUARTERS 1.26 6. SV INSIDE A U.N VEHICLES, U.N WEAPONS INSPECTORS AND IRAQI INTRUDER SAT IN THE VEHICLE CLUTCHING DOCUMENTS TO HIS CHEST 1.42 7. CU OF IRAQI GUARDS TRYING TO PRISE THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE MAN AND GET THE MAN OUT OF THE VEHICLE 2.10 8. SV MAN IS PULLED FROM THE CAR (2 SHOTS) 2.46 9. SV MAN SURROUNDED BY GUARDS AND U.N REPRESENTATIVES 2.55 10. SV MAN WALKS OFF DOWN THE ROAD WITH SEVERAL OTHER MEN 3.06 (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 25, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 11. SLV THE HOTEL WHERE THE INTERVIEW WITH THE SCIENTIST IS CONDUCTED 3.12 12. SLV THE ARRIVAL OF THE SCIENTIST FOR A PRIVATE INTERVIEW WITH WEAPONS INSPECTORS 3.27 13. SLV/SV/CU U.N WEAPONS INSPECTORS THROUGH THE GLASS, INSIDE THE HOTEL (3 SHOTS) 3.42 14. SV/SLV EXTERIOR OF HOTEL/THE SCIENTIST LEAVING THE BUILDING, GETTING INTO VEHICLE AND DRIVING AWAY (3 SHOTS) 4.10 (W4) AL-DUJAIL, 50 KM NORTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 25, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 15. SLV THE ENTRANCE OF A MILITARY BASE 50 KM NORTH OF BAGHDAD 4.16 16. LV OF INSPECTORS WALKING AROUND THE SITE (2 SHOTS) 4.28 17. SLV MILITARY VEHICLE 4.32 18. LV INSPECTORS WALKING AROUND THE SITE 4.40 19. SV SITE GUARD WITH GUN, PORTRAIT OF IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN 4.46 (W4) DIWANIYA, 160 KM SOUTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 25, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 20. CU THE SIGN FOR THE A UNIVERSITY OF QADISIYA 4.49 21. LV INSPECTORS AT THE SITE 4.59 22. LV OF THE UNIVERSITY 5.04 (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 25, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 22. LV/SV IRAQI MUSLIM PILGRIMS LEAVE FOR MAKKA FOR HAJ, ON THE BUS, PEOPLE WAVING THEM OFF (3 SHOTS) 5.28 23. SLV BUSES LEAVING 5.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BAGHDAD, AL-DUJAIL AND DIWANIYA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA32H2WWDGLA1NL5JULCQ3D52WK
- Story Text: A man wielding three knives tried to enter the building
housing U.N. arms inspectors in Baghdad but was stopped by
guards, and in a separate incident another man jumped into one
of the inspectors' cars as it was leaving the headquarters and
tried to snatch documents before Iraqi guards seized him.
Meanwhile an Iraqi thought to be a scientist visited a
Baghdad hotel housing U.N. arms inspectors as other teams of
inspectors continued their work visiting various sites.
A Reuters cameraman and driver saw Iraqi guards and
United Nations security stop the man on Saturday (January 25),
who held the knives in his hands and appeared to be an Iraqi
in his twenties.
The weapons inspectors were preparing to leave for daily
inspections of Iraqi sites.
Another person jumped into one of the inspectors' cars as
it was leaving the headquarters and tried to seize documents
before Iraqi guards seized him.
"Two incidents took place today. A man...tried to force
his way on to the (U.N.) premises. He was stopped by Iraqi
police guarding the premises and U.N. security," U.N.
spokesman Hiro Ueki told Reuters.
"He was carrying three knives and a piece of metal. He was
handed to the (Iraqi) police," he added.
Ueki said he still had little information about the second
incident but said a man tried to stop a convoy of U.N. cars
carrying weapons inspectors outside the U.N. building.
This was the first such incident since weapons inspectors
resumed their search for weapons of mass destruction on
November 27 after a four-year absence. The inspections have
aroused much resentment among Iraqis.
Also on Saturday (January 25) a man, believed to be a
scientist entered the al-Hayat hotel accompanied by officials
of the Iraqi Monitoring Directorate, which liaises with the
U.N. experts. He left 90 minutes later alone, carrying
documents.
He refused to speak to reporters and it was not
immediately known if the inspectors had questioned him, either
privately or in the presence of Iraqi "minders".
A U.N. spokesman in Baghdad declined to comment.
The United States accused Iraq on Friday of preventing
scientists from taking part in private interviews.
A senior Iraqi official said on Thursday his office had
tried to persuade scientists to submit to unmonitored
questioning, but they had refused to do so.
Baghdad has listed about 500 scientists involved in
weapons programmes in the past. But none of the dozen or so
approached by the inspectors so far have agreed to face them
in private.
Iraq said on Friday it had received requests from the U.N.
inspectors to interview three scientists on Saturday, but did
not say if any of them had accepted.
Meanwhile U.N weapons inspectors continued with their
visits to sites in search of weapons of mass destruction.
An UNMOVIC multidisciplinary team travelled to a missile
site in al-Dujail, north of Baghdad.
A biological team went to the University of Qadisiya in
Diwaniya 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad.
Other visits included one by a a chemical team from the
U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
(UNMOVIC) to al-Qaqaa industrial complex. A team from the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) went to offices of
the state oil company in Mosul, and a nuclear team went to
Khan Bani Saad.
The United States is counting on support from "at least a
dozen" governments if it decides to attack Iraq without a new
U.N. resolution, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on
Saturday.
Powell said these unnamed governments, like Washington,
would prefer a new U.N. Security Council resolution
authorising the use of force against Iraq, but would not
insist on that.
The inspectors are to deliver a report on their work to
the U.N. Security Council on Monday, which could begin a
countdown for a possible U.S. invasion to force Iraq to
disarm.
The first group of Iraqi Muslim pilgrims left on Saturday
morning for their journey to Saudi Arabia for the haj. They
left on buses for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam's
holiest site, in Saudi Arabia.
Religious law requires Muslims to visit Mecca at least
once in their lives. Saudi Arabia expects two million Muslims
from all over the world to attend during the February 2-8 haj
season.
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