Realing that the UN inspectors in country are having difficulties finding enough material breaches on their own, Iraq is forming their own teams of inspectors to help out with things.
It said Iraq had handed more documents to inspectors, was clarifying others and was forming its own teams to search for suspicious items. U.N. inspectors discovered empty chemical warheads last week which Iraq had failed to report to the United Nations; Iraq said it had forgotten about them.
Iraqi officials went on to say that they would do a much better job of hiding all remaining chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in the future.
The statement said Iraq would also encourage inspections of “private sites” — an apparent reference to places like the homes of leading scientists — and to “private interviews” — referring to talks between U.N. inspectors and Iraqi technical experts without the presence of Iraqi government minders.
“Just let us check out their houses first, to make sure things are tidy, that’s all we ask.”