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To: Jon K. who started this subject	1/16/2003 3:27:03 PM
From: Softechie	of 29601

Iraq/Warheads -2: `A Storm In A Teacup' - Iraqi Aide 16 Jan 14:50 BAGHDAD (AP)--The U.N. said it discovered warheads Iraq hadn't told it about Thursday, but an Iraqi official said the weapons were old 122-mm artillery rockets mentioned in its December declaration. The inspectors said they found 11 empty chemical warheads in "excellent" condition at an ammunition storage area in southern Iraq where they were inspecting bunkers built in the late 1990s, a U.N. spokesman reported. They hadn't previously been declared by Iraq, the U.N. maintained. A 12th warhead, also of 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. "It was a discovery. They were not declared," Ueki said. But Lt. Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, the chief Iraqi liaison officer to the inspection teams, said they were short-range rockets imported in 1988 and mentioned in Iraq's December declaration to the U.N. "I would like to express the astonishment of the Iraqi government about the fuss made about the discovery by a U.N. inspection team of `mass destruction weapons.' It is no more than a storm in a teacup," Amin said in a news conference called hastily after the U.N. issued its written statement. MSNBC reported that Amin said the empty warheads were found in boxes that Iraq had "forgotten" about. According to MSNBC, he said the U.N. statement was an example of the pressure the U.S. is putting on the weapons inspectors. (MORE) Dow Jones Newswires 01-16-03 1450ET

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