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Iraq blasts powell Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030205/ts_nm/iraq_inspectors_dc_7 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030205/ts_nm/iraq_inspectors_dc_7 Iraq Blasts Powell, UN Inspectors Search More Sites Wed Feb 5, 4:53 AM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's state media blasted Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) forthcoming address to the United Nations (news - web sites) Wednesday, saying the evidence against Baghdad he plans to unveil would be fabricated, cheap or vague. U.S. officials say Powell will use satellite photographs and recorded Iraqi conversations to try to persuade a skeptical world that Iraq is concealing weapons of mass destruction and war may be necessary to disarm it. Powell's address to the U.N. Security Council is due to start at 10:30 a.m. EST. It may be Washington's last, best chance to convince key allies such as France, Russia and China that Iraq constitutes a clear and present danger. "Powell has nothing but fabricated intelligence information," wrote the ruling Baath Party newspaper, al-Thawra. Babel, newspaper of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s eldest son Uday, said Washington was seeking an excuse to launch its "already-decided aggression" on Iraq. "What Powell is going to present will be cheap satellite pictures and vague recorded conversations," the government newspaper al-Jumohouriya said. In a rare television interview broadcast Tuesday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein flatly denied Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. Powell then challenged him to "Prove it." An unnamed Bush administration official said Tuesday the aim of Powell's presentation would be to show how the Iraqis were hiding existing banned weapons and continuing to develop them even as inspectors scour the country. MORE INSPECTIONS Iraqi officials said the inspectors, who returned to Iraq in November after a four-year absence, visited at least nine more sites in Iraq Wednesday. A biological team from the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) went to al-Nu'man, a state-run irrigation company south of Baghdad. Another team combed a food research center in Baghdad and a third inspected a laser research center belonging to Baghdad University. A fourth team visited a dairy factory in Abu Ghraib north of the capital. A missile team went to the al-Mutasim missile plant 54 miles west of Baghdad and another team visited a missile factory belonging to the al-Karamah facility, which allegedly conducted research on missile guidance and control systems. A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited warehouses in the Tuweitha compound, the main site of the Iraqi nuclear program south of Baghdad before it was removed in an earlier round of inspections. They also inspected the site of the Osirak reactor bombed by Israel in 1981. The Iraqi officials also said that a multidisciplinary team inspected an undisclosed site north of Baghdad. U.N. arms inspectors said they found an empty chemical warhead at a military depot near Baghdad Tuesday, the same type as 12 undeclared empty warheads found elsewhere last month. Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix told the Security Council on January 27 that Iraq should have declared the warheads and said the find could be the "tip of an iceberg." Iraq said it was a simple oversight.

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