WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: More inspections unfolding in Iraq today. For that part of the story, let's go to our senior international correspondent Nic Robertson. He's joining us live from Baghdad -- Nic.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, 70 inspectors in the country now, 43 are chemical, biological missile experts, 27 nuclear experts. They visited seven different sites today. One team going to an old uranium ore mine up on the border with Syria to see if that was functioning. It's not. Other teams going to a former atomic research facility. Another team going to two different sites to check up on fuel-use equipment, and another team going to two different sites, or two different teams going to two different sites to check up on new construction at those sites. The team I followed today went to a site that Iraq had recently put on its new weapons declaration, and it also put it on its declaration back in October that it handed to the U.N. The reason that it put it on this declaration, this was not a facility, not a factory when the U.N. weapons inspectors were here in 1998. They have rebuilt a facility that was bombed during the Gulf War. It is now producing parts for T-72 tanks, for surface-to-air missiles, for other types of missiles that Iraq has, and also other military components. However, the inspectors spent 3 1/2 hours there. They conducted everything that they wanted to do. They apparently had good cooperation, according to the Iraqi officials, and left the site. We saw when we went in some machine shops producing various small components on milling machines, grinding machines, this type of thing. But the overall impression there, Wolf, a site still under construction, but the reason the inspectors went there, because it was new, and it has not been visited before -- Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Nic Robertson in Baghdad, watching all of these stories unfold for us on the scene. Nic, thanks very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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