Baghdad - Iraq said yesterday it had defused 58 unexploded bombs dropped during the recent US-led attacks, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) said. "The Civil Defence Directorate defused during the latest US-British aggression on Iraq in Baghdad and the governorates 58 unexploded missiles and bombs dropped on government and civil establishments," INA said.
It quoted the directorate's chief, Mr Qasim Mohammed Noorir, as saying 39 of the unexploded bombs were found in Baghdad and the others in the southern provinces of Qadissiya, Wasit, Basra, Dhi Qar and Babil. Meanwhile, Iraq condemned a secret meeting of five Arab foreign ministers held in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada and said it was a deviation from the Arab League's regulations.