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Tracking Inspections: 2 DECEMBER 2002

A team of six International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors visited four privately owned companies located in the Diyala Governorate near the city of Al-Khalis. They are the Al-Awali Company for Producing Alcohol; The Al-Dhahabiyah Company for Producing Alcohol; the Al-Sabah Grain Mill; and the Al-Abraj Company for Producing Alcohol. These sites have not been inspected by UN inspectors in the past.

At Al-Awali, inspectors reviewed blueprints of the site and conducted a radiological survey, according to the ministry. Inspectors inquired as to the method used to produce alcohol, including the method for purifying water and liquid waste at the Al-Dhahabiyah Company, the ministry stated.

Inspectors verified that the Al-Sabah Grain Mill was "free of any equipment," according to the ministry.

At Al-Abraj, inspectors questioned the director and checked tagged equipment.

A team of 15 UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) inspectors visited the Al-Karama State Company located at the Al-Waziriyah Complex and belonging to the Military Industrialization Organization (MIO) in Baghdad, which produces liquid-fuel missiles. Inspectors questioned a representative of the National Monitoring Directorate (NMD) at the site, including about the whereabouts of monitoring equipment left at the site in 1998. The ministry noted that coalition forces destroyed most of the cameras and that others were removed and stored at the NMD for safekeeping. The ministry stated that some equipment from the site was transferred to other sites affiliated with the company. The equipment was listed in the 1 October 2002 biannual declaration, according to the Foreign Ministry. Computers were verified and documents were photocopied. UNMOVIC stated that Al-Karama is "one of Iraq's principal missile development sites." It also stated that none of the tagged equipment and monitoring cameras present at the site in 1998 (when it was last inspected by UNSCOM) are there today. UNMOVIC also noted that Al-Waziriyah is an engineering research and development site.

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