VOICED Iraqis show facility they deny is producing weapons

(11 Aug 2002) VOICED BY LOUISE BATES 0:00 Wide shot of main entrance to site 0:03 Close up sign: "General Establishment for Animal Development" 0:07 Various of journalists arriving 0:17 SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeed Al Musawee, Director General, Iraqi Foreign Ministry 0:33 Pan across exterior yard 0:40 Various old bottles inside 0:53 Pile of discarded boxes, pan to documents 0:58 Close up documents 1:01 Pan across machinery and equipment 1:09 Wide of presser 1:12 SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Husam Mohammed Ameen, Director General of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate 1:23 Pull out from debris outside building 1:30 VISION ENDS STORYLINE As the United States steps up pressure on Iraq, journalists have been taken on a tour of a site in the Iraqi capital Baghdad which is suspected of helping to produce weapons of mass destruction. VOICE-OVER: 002 The United States believes this laboratory in Baghdad was used to produce weapons of mass destruction. 007 Iraq says it was a livestock vaccination factory. 011 On Sunday a group of journalists were shown around in an effort to prove it. 017 SOUNDBITE: (English) "As you see yourself, this plant has been abandoned since a long time and it was under ongoing monitoring until the departure of the inspectors and monitors from Iraq in 1998." SUPERCAPTION: Saeed Al Musawee, Director General, Iraqi Foreign Ministry 034 The Iraqis say an engineer who fled the country made false claims about the site to the CIA. 040 But the US is convinced Iraq is rebuilding its chemical, nuclear and biological weapons programs. 47 US President George Bush is demanding the return of weapons inspectors. 53 He's warned Iraq of the consequences of refusing. 56 There are rumblings of a US attack on Iraq to topple its leader Saddam Hussein. 101 And tough sanctions will remain in place until inspectors certify there are no weapons of mass destruction or the missiles to deliver them. 109 Iraq is maintaining its innocence. 112 UPSOUND: (Arabic) Husam Mohammed Ameen, Director General of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate 114 The director general of the Iraqi National Monitoring Unit says Iraq has met all its commitments on UN resolutions. There's nothing hidden here, he says. 123 President Bush, though, says Iraq and its leader remain "an enemy until proven otherwise." 130 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...