IRAQ: OFFICIAL SAYS IRAQI SCIENTISTS INTERVIEWED OUTSIDE OF IRAQ WOULD BE PRESSURISED TO GIVE FALSE INFORMATION / UN INSPECTORS SEARCH AL-SUMOUD PREMISES

Record ID: 648730

  • Title: IRAQ: OFFICIAL SAYS IRAQI SCIENTISTS INTERVIEWED OUTSIDE OF IRAQ WOULD BE PRESSURISED TO GIVE FALSE INFORMATION / UN INSPECTORS SEARCH AL-SUMOUD PREMISES
  • Date: 30th December 2002
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 30, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF IRAQI ADVISOR OF THE PRESIDENCY OFFICE AMER AS-SA'DI SEATED AT PODIUM IN FRONT OF LARGE BANNER ANNOUNCING "STOP THE NEXT WAR AGAINST IRAQ/SOLIDARITY WITH IRAQI PEOPLE/ 5TH SPANISH STATE DELEGATION TO IRAQ" 0.04 2. CUTWAY AUDIENCE 0.08 3. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AS-SA'DI SAYING "The matter of getting the Iraqi scientists out of Iraq is an American plan aiming at terrifying or alluring them to get false information as this took place with others who got out previously, for getting either money or residence." 1.16 4. SMV MEMBERS OF DELEGATION LISTENING 1.19 5. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AS-SA'DI SAYING "It is impossible to force an Iraqi citizen to accept leaving the country in this way and without any insurance for his rights." 1.39 6. SMV MORE OF DELEGATION 1.43 7. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AS-SA'DI SAYING "The problem is that Iraq is accused of preserving 400 bombs capable of carrying biological weapon." 2.00 8. SCU WOMAN IN AUDIENCE TAKING PHOTOGRAPH 2.05 (W4) ABU GHREIB, NEAR BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 30, 2002) (REUTERS) 9. WIDE OF EXTERIOR U.N. COMPOUND 2.10 10. VARIOUS OF U.N. VEHICLES AND INSPECTORS LEAVING TO INSPECT SUSPECT SITES (4 SHOTS) 2.31 11. VARIOUS OF U.N. INSPECTORS ARRIVING AT AL-SUMOUD CENTRE WITH VEHICLES DRIVING THROUGH GATES AND GATES CLOSING (3 SHOTS) 2.43 12. WIDE OF INSPECTORS INSIDE COMPOUND WITH STORAGE BARRELS IN THE BACKGROUND 2.48 13. SMV INSPECTORS TALKING 2.52 14. SLV INSPECTORS AND CAMERA OPERATOR WALKING OVER TO DOOR OF STORAGE BUILDING AND WALKING INSIDE 3.01 15. SLV INSPECTORS STANDING BY UN VEHICLES TALKING 3.06 16. SLV INSPECTORS WALKING OUT OF BUILDING, ONE INSPECTOR WITH MONITORING EQUIPMENT 3.11 17. SLV OF INSPECTORS LEAVING, WALKING IN COMPOUND 3.15 18. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF AL- SUMOUD CENTRE WITH MURAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN 3.20 19. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DIRECTOR OF THE PLANT MOHAMMED HUSSEIN SAYING "A team of twenty five inspectors have stormed into the plant under the supervision of the French "Peco" in a way never witnessed before and in a manner similar to the work of gangs." 3.49 20. SLV U.N. VEHICLES LEAVING COMPOUND 3.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th January 2003 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD AND ABU GHREIB, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA927WCMJ1Q00GICEMKH75PBNBQ
  • Story Text: Iraq has said that if Iraqi scientists were interviewed
    outside the country, the U.S. would put pressure on them to
    give false information. U.N. weapons inspectors have visited
    the Al Sumoud Company in Abu Ghreib and a water treatment
    facility near Yusoufiyyah.



    Seated in front of a large banner reading "Stop the
    next war against Iraq in solidarity with the Iraqi people,"
    Iraqi advisor to the presidency office, Amer As-Sa'di,
    addressed a Spanish delegation on a solidarity visit to Iraq
    on Monday (December 30).

    He said the United States wanted Iraqi scientists to leave
    the country so that they could put pressure on them.

    "The matter of getting the Iraqi scientists out of Iraq
    is an American plan aiming at terrifying or alluring them to
    get false information as this took place with others who got
    out previously, for getting either money or residence," he said.

    "It is impossible to force an Iraqi citizen to accept
    leaving the country in this way and without any insurance for
    his rights," he added.

    U.N. weapons inspections continued at several sites across
    Iraq on Monday (December 30).

    Missile experts went to the Al Sumoud Company in Abu
    Ghreib, 25 km (16 miles) west of Baghdad.

    After the inspection, the director of the plant Mohammed
    Hussein said: "A team of 25 inspectors have stormed into the
    plant under the supervision of the French "Peco" in a way
    never witnessed before and in a manner similar to the work of
    gangs."
    U.N. experts, absent for four years, have been working
    flat out since they resumed inspections in Iraq on November 27
    to check Baghdad's assertion that it has no banned weapons.

    There are now 110 inspectors from the International Atomic
    Energy Agency (IAEA) and the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and
    Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) in Iraq.


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