UN monitors kick-off 2003 Iraq inspections

UN arms inspectors hunting for evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq today kicked off 2003 with visits to a missile maintenance facility and a truck repair workshop.

Al-Harith facility 28 miles north of Baghdad does maintenance work on SA-2, SA-3 and SA-6 anti-aircraft missile systems and has been visited before by the inspectors. It was the international monitors’ first visit to the al-Magd truck repair company.