Google Alerts - The United Nations Security Council has voted to close down the weapons inspection programme set up to monitor former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's arsenal.
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic) was set up in 1999 to check Iraq no longer had any weapons of mass destruction.
Its inspectors permanently quit Iraq just before the US invasion in 2003.
Following the invasion, the task of hunting for the weapons on the ground was taken over by a US-led body, the Iraq Survey Group.
Neither body found the secret arsenal of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons that the US and Britain had claimed Iraq possessed.
Saturday, 30 June 2007 10:20