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Inspectors at 'explosives plant'
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq Wednesday paid visits to a number of sites in their efforts to detect weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi Information Ministry said. The inspections come on a pivotal day at the U.N. Security Council, where U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is planning to make the case that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and is deceiving U.N. weapons inspectors, who have visited scores of sites since they began their work in November. Biological inspectors surveyed Al Nu'man Company, south of Baghdad, which was previously searched and had been identified by the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission as part of an explosives research and development facility. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry had identified the company as a place for static testing and specialized in the checking of small missile engines and was affiliated with Al Qa'qaa State Company. The biological inspectors also went to the Nutrition Research Institute in Baghdad, the Laser Institute in Baghdad, and the Abu Ghreib Dairies, west of the city. Missile inspectors visited Al Mutassim Company, 90 kilometers south of Baghdad, a site previously inspected last month, and a site at Al Karama. Chemical and nuclear inspectors visited Al Shaikhli warehouses in Al Tuwaitha A joint team of inspectors looked at a cement mixer near Al Muthanna Bridge, five kilometers north of Baghdad.
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