IRAQ : U.N. Demolishes Germ Warfare Plant
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From Times Wire Reports
The United Nations completed the destruction in Iraq of a large germ warfare plant used to fill bombs with such agents as anthrax and botulism. In a U.N. video, Iraqi workers supervised by U.N. inspectors were shown blowing up the Hakam factory, 50 miles south of Baghdad, bit by bit. They smashed equipment with bulldozers and packed up some substances in plastic bags.
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