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Iraqi official details weapons declarationMore than 2,000 pages on nuclear activities
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A top Iraqi official Sunday gave a partial accounting of what is contained in the massive declaration of Iraq's weapons program handed over to U.N. weapons inspectors. Gen. Amir al-Saadi, the Iraqi government's science adviser, said the 12,000-page report contains separate declarations for Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile programs. Each declaration, he said, comprises two parts -- one covering events up to the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and one covering developments from the end of the war to the present -- as well as an annex consisting of verification documents. The declarations, all told, cover about 5,000 pages, al-Saadi said. Al-Saadi declined to specify the number of pages for each program, but he gave a breakdown of the declaration on Iraq's nuclear program as an example. He said the nuclear declaration was 2,081 pages. Part one begins with an 80-page "extended summary" covering the stages of development of Iraq's nuclear program, its organization, and financial allocations and procurements, al-Saadi said. The second section talks about the technologies Iraq used in its nuclear program and covers 363 pages, al-Saadi said. The third section, at 336 pages, discusses what al-Saadi referred to as "device development -- the bomb." A fourth section, 177 pages in length, details miscellaneous activities related to the nuclear program, al-Saadi said. It is followed by a 111-page section which states the achievements of the nuclear program, he said. The annexes to the first part of the nuclear declaration, al-Saadi said, are 145 pages long and detail Iraq's procurement of equipment used in the nuclear program and the current state of that equipment. The second part of the nuclear declaration is made up of 300 pages, divided into two chapters, and discusses main and supporting sites involved in the program, al-Saadi said. Al-Saadi said the declaration has no additional evidence that Iraq has dismantled its weapons programs, but he called it complete, current and accurate. A senior Bush administration official said Saturday that U.S. intelligence has a "number of pieces of information" indicating the Iraqi government has not only continued its weapons of mass destruction programs but accelerated them. A U.N. plane carrying the Iraqi declaration left Baghdad on Sunday morning on its journey to deliver the nearly 12,000 pages and CD-ROMs that make up the report. It will be studied by experts in Vienna, Austria, and New York.
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