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Iraq Agrees to Allow UN Inspectors Back
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

U.N. officials said the first group of inspectors could be in Baghdad in two weeks.

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
Iraq has agreed to allow U.N. inspectors back into the country, U.N. officials said Oct. 1 in Vienna.

Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, said Iraq had agreed to allow inspectors in under the rules in existence in 1998, when the inspectors were ordered out.

U.S. officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude on the situation. A State Department spokesman said U.S. officials must "read the fine print" on the agreement before commenting. Early reports indicate that the inspectors would not be allowed into presidential palaces the United States suspects of being repositories or laboratories for chemical, nuclear and biological weapons.
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