1.   But in a letter to the Security Council Thursday, he blamed an accident during a maintenance check of short-range Iraqi missile engines for the damage.

2.   He said that accounting for missile engines and guidance systems was not necessary at this point.

3.   Iraq has failed to provide convincing accounts of what happened to dozens of Scud missile engines and other missile components, the commission says.

4.   The company also makes missile engines for Defense Department programs.

5.   The government has expelled an Iranian student who was trying to buy missile technology and intervened to cancel an Iranian contract with NPT Trud, which makes missile engines.

6.   A ministry statement said Iraqi teams, working under U.N. supervision, uncovered four destroyed missile engines at a site outside Baghdad.

7.   According to a ministry statement, Iraqi teams, working under U.N. supervision, uncovered four destroyed missile engines at a site outside Baghdad.

8.   Al-Sahhaf also said one surveillance camera was damaged Wednesday in an explosion during an Iraqi military test of two short-range missile engines.

9.   Also last year, Ukraine deported three Chinese citizens for allegedly trying to steal sensitive data on strategic missile engines from a Ukrainian plant.

10.   Al-Sahhaf also said one surveillance camera was damaged Wednesday in an explosion during Iraqi military tests of two short-range missile engines.