U.N. Views Iraqi Site After 2nd Standoff in 4 Days
The second standoff in four days between Iraq and U.N. weapons inspectors ended Monday after a U.N. team was allowed into an installation south of Baghdad that Iraq said was a Presidential Guard training center.
But the group of more than 40 United Nations experts had to wait 11 hours before some of its members gained access to the sprawling site at Sarabady in the desert.
On Friday, the same U.N. team was barred from a building in Baghdad that Iraq said housed its Irrigation Ministry.
After an 18-hour overnight standoff, during which the U.N. inspectors surrounded the premises, experts were allowed into the building Saturday. They searched it for about seven hours before reporting that they had found no documents or materials related to any clandestine weapons programs.
Under Security Council resolutions dating from the end of the Persian Gulf War, Iraq is bound to disclose and destroy all stocks and facilities relating to its nuclear, chemical, biological and ballistic missile programs.
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