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U.N. inspectors search medical sites
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.N. inspectors resumed their search Saturday for signs that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction. The inspectors visited at least five sites, including two medical supply warehouses, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Information. According to the ministry, Saturday's inspections included a team of U.N. nuclear experts going to Al Amiryah in Falluja, a town west of Baghdad. It was not clear whether the inspectors searched a serum and vaccine institute located in the town. Biological weapons teams went to Al Dabbash and Al Adel, two medical supplies warehouses in Baghdad, the ministry said. The missile team went to Ibn Seena center, in Al Tarmiya north of Baghdad, to inspect equipment and raw materials for use in chemical processes linked to missile activity, a spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency said. Inspectors also inspected an airfield in Haditha, 186 miles west of Baghdad. The airfield, now defunct, belongs to an oil pumping station known as K3. The chief engineer there, Ali Hussein Mohamed, said the inspectors asked him whether the station was used for military or chemical activities. He said that he told them the field had been used to train helicopter pilots, but that it had not been used since 1991. The engineer said that inspectors spent about an hour at the airfield and looked inside one hangar, which was empty.
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