21.   Also Tuesday, a military plane and ships sent to the Pacific where the missile apparently landed searched for missile parts, the Defense Agency said.

22.   Authorities stopped a Maltese-flagged cargo ship in Turkish waters Monday on suspicion that it was carrying Russian missile parts to Cyprus, news reports said.

23.   Authorities found missile parts destined for Egypt on an Egyptian ship that was searched last week on suspicion of carrying missile parts to Cyprus.

24.   China denies it has shipped missiles or missile parts to Pakistan.

25.   Egypt, meanwhile, was displeased with a published report that it had received missile parts from North Korea.

26.   Ekeus said Iraq inflated the number of missile and missile parts it destroyed as part of the monitoring program in order to hide its research and missile testing.

27.   Ekeus said Iraq, in order to hide its testing, inflated the number of missile and missile parts it destroyed as part of the monitoring program.

28.   However, a U.N. weapons inspector in Baghdad was rebuffed in efforts to get missile parts released for inspection, part of the requirement for lifting the sanctions altogether.

29.   In a similar incident last year, Turkey found missile parts aboard an Egyptian ship but released it after Cairo confirmed that the arms belonged to Egypt.

30.   Iraq has resisted releasing the missile parts because it says it fears the results will be forged.