IRAQ: INSPECTORS VISIT IBN FIRNAS MILITARY SITE ON 4TH DAY OF U.N INSPECTIONS FOR WEAPONS OF "MASS DESTRUCTION"/ MARYTYRS DAY MEMORIAL CEREMONY

Record ID: 649212

  • Title: IRAQ: INSPECTORS VISIT IBN FIRNAS MILITARY SITE ON 4TH DAY OF U.N INSPECTIONS FOR WEAPONS OF "MASS DESTRUCTION"/ MARYTYRS DAY MEMORIAL CEREMONY
  • Date: 1st December 2002
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 01, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF CONVOY OF INSPECTORS LEAVING U.N. COMPOUND FOR THE FOURTH DAY OF INSPECTIONS (3 SHOTS) 0.19 (W5) IBIN FIRNAS SITE AT RASHIDIYA, 20KM NORTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 01, 2002)(REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) 2. SLV GATES OF IBIN FIRNAS SITE, 15KM NORTH OF BAGHDAD BEING CLOSED AFTER U.N INSPECTORS HAVE ENTERED 0.22 3. SLV INSPECTORS AND STAFF FROM THE IRAQI NATIONAL MONITORING COMMISSION 0.27 4. SMV A SOLDIER OPENING A DOOR FOR INSPECTORS, INSPECTORS GOING INSIDE 0.34 5. WIDE OF U.N VEHICLES WITH INSPECTORS DRIVING OUT OF THE MILITARY SITE PASSING GIANT MURAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN 0.37 6. SLV REPORTERS INSIDE THE SITE 0.42 7. SLV BUILDING WITH MURAL OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT / PAN TO MEDIA 0.46 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(English) DIRECTOR OF THE SITE IBRAHIM HUSSEIN SAYING: "They visited this site and they looked at the systems and documents and everything of the rooms and so on. This technical shop is related to gear box and transmission system for helicopters." 1.04 9. VARIOUS OF EQUIPMENT FOR HELICOPTERS ON DISPLAY IN TABLE (2 SHOTS) 1.17 10. SMV MAN WORKING ON COMPUTER 1.21 11. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) DIRECTOR OF THE SITE IBRAHIM HUSSEIN SAYING: "We hope that in as much as we co-operated with the inspectors, they would deal with things objectively and professionally to reveal the fact and thus lead to the lifting of the unjust sanctions of Iraq, a country which has been suffering a lot for a long time." 1.35 (W5) AIRSTRIP FOR SMALL PLANES USED IN SPRAYING PESTICIDES ON CROPS AT KHAN BANI SAAD, 30 KM NORTHEAST OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 01, 2002)(REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) 12. CLOSE OF SIGN READING: "THE AGRICULTURAL PLANES" (IRAQI) 1.39 13. SLV INSPECTORS WALKING TOWARDS HELICOPTER 1.44 14. SLV OF INSPECTORS WALKING AROUND SITE 1.48 15. WIDE OF HELICOPTERS ON AIRSTRIP 1.52 16. SLV IRAQI HELICOPTER 1.56 17. CLOSE OF UNITED NATIONS LABEL ON AN ENGINE OF A PLANE READING UNSCOMB WITH REFERENCE AND BAR CODE 2.01 18. SLV, ROW OF ENGINES FOR SMALL PLANES OUTSIDE WORKSHOP 2.05 19. CLOSE OF SMALL PLANE ENGINE 2.09 20. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) DIRECTOR OF THE SITE MUNTADHAR MOHAMMED SAYING: "They asked me various questions regarding the activity of the section and about some apparatuses there and got acquainted with safety of tags and they were assured the tags existed. They also reviewed what was on the computer." 2.30 (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 01, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 21. WIDE OF MARCHING BAND AND SOLDIERS WITH IRAQ FLAG AT THE MARTYRS MONUMENT 22. SMV MARCHING SOLDIERS 2.38 23. SLV SOLDIERS STANDING TO ATTENTION 2.42 24. SMV IRAQI MILITARY OFFICERS WAITING FOR CEREMONY 2.46 25. SMV VEHICLE CONVOY CARRYING IZZAT IBRAHIM, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMAND ARRIVING FOR CEREMONY 2.52 26. SLV IZZAT IBRAHIM, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMAND COUNCIL ARRIVING AND GREETING OFFICERS 3.00 27. SLV IZZAT IBRAHIM WALKING TO RED CARPET FOR CEREMONY 3.08 28. SMV GUARD OF HONOUR 3.13 29. SMV IBRAHIM LAYING WREATH, PAN OF WREATH ON GROUND (2 SHOTS) 3.22 30. SLV BACK VIEW OF IBRAHIM SALUTING MONUMENT 3.27 31. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) OIL MINISTER AMEER RASHID, SAYING: "We are in the nine-day period so we'll wait and see what will happen at the end of it." 3.40 32. VARIOUS OF TRAFFIC ON THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD (3 SHOTS) 3.55 33. SLV MEN READING NEWSPAPERS 4.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th December 2002 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, RASHIDIYA AND KHAN BANI SAAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA3T8BG023WUVETD6BKJ4ZSX6RV
  • Story Text: United Nations (U.N.) inspections teams have spent a
    fourth day searching for prohibited weapons in Iraq. Today,
    the inspectors inspected Ibn Firnas military industrial
    compound at Rashidiya, 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Baghdad,
    while Iraqis celebrated Martyrs Day - a day commemorating
    Iraqis killed during the Gulf War.



    On the fourth day of inspections in the hunt for Iraqi
    weapons of mass destruction, a team of United Nations (U.N.)
    experts drove to the Ibn Firnas military industrial compound
    at Rashidiya, 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

    The compound is run by the Military Industrialisation
    Commission (MIS).

    Director of the site Ibrahim Hussein said the facility
    produces spare parts for fighter jets and helicopters.

    "They visited this site and they looked at the systems and
    documents and everything of the rooms and so on. This
    technical shop is related to gear box and transmission system
    for helicopters."
    He denied any links to banned weapons and said his staff
    co-operated fully with the inspectors.

    "We hope that in as much as we co-operated with the
    inspectors, they would deal with things objectively and
    professionally to reveal the fact and thus lead to the lifting
    of the unjust sanctions," Hussein said.

    A second team of U.N. experts drove to an airstrip for
    small planes used in spraying pesticides on crops at Khan Bani
    Saad, some 30 km (20 miles) northeast of the Iraqi capital.

    The facility is run by the Agriculture Ministry.

    The experts blocked anyone or anything from entering or
    leaving the site and stopped the Iraqi employee in charge of
    warehouses from going in with them.

    Weapons inspections resumed in Iraq on November 27 after a
    four-year gap in line with a U.N. resolution passed last month
    giving Baghdad one last chance to disarm or face war.

    Iraq, which denies it has any nuclear, chemical or
    biological weapons, has pledged full co-operation with the
    inspectors.

    It must submit a declaration of any banned weapons by
    December 8.

    Elsewhere in Iraq, citizens celebrated Martyrs Day.

    The day is dedicated to commemorating Iraqis killed during
    the Gulf War.

    As part of the celebrations, Vice-President of the
    Revolutionary Command Council Izzar Ibrahim laid a wreath in
    honour of the dead.





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