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12-13-2002, 02:22 PM
U.N. team calls hot line after being barred from locked rooms in Baghdad
NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer Friday, December 13, 2002
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(12-13) 13:11 PST BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --
U.N. teams were held up for two hours on Friday at a newly declared site -- an infectious diseases center -- forcing inspectors to use their hot line to higher Iraqi authorities for the first time since returning to the country last month.
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During inspections in Baghdad on Friday, a U.N. team got access to the Communicable Disease Control Center but found several rooms locked and no one with keys. The Iraqis said the rooms were locked because Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, was a day off for doctors and other workers and no one else had keys.
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NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer Friday, December 13, 2002
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(12-13) 13:11 PST BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --
U.N. teams were held up for two hours on Friday at a newly declared site -- an infectious diseases center -- forcing inspectors to use their hot line to higher Iraqi authorities for the first time since returning to the country last month.
...
During inspections in Baghdad on Friday, a U.N. team got access to the Communicable Disease Control Center but found several rooms locked and no one with keys. The Iraqis said the rooms were locked because Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, was a day off for doctors and other workers and no one else had keys.
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