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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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">The statement said Iraq would also encourage inspections of &#8220;private sites&#8221; &#8212; an apparent reference to places like the homes of leading scientists &#8212; and to &#8220;private interviews&#8221; &#8212; referring to talks between U.N. inspectors and Iraqi technical experts without the presence of Iraqi government minders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just let us check out their houses first, to make sure things are tidy, that&#8217;s all we ask.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3650,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/14\/unconditional.html","url_meta":{"origin":4200,"position":0},"title":"Unconditional","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Oct-02 8:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember those \"unconditional inspections\" that Iraq promised to allow? 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