Her father is the head of verification for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has its headquarters in The Hague.
This past March, when I was at I.A.E.A. headquarters in Vienna, I went to the office of Olli Heinonen, the agency's head of verification for the Middle East and much of Asia, and he showed me an aerial photograph of Iraq's Tuwaitha complex taken after it was bombed in 1991.
It is a plastic, cup-shaped instrument which is applied to the fetal head after verification of the absence of vaginal wall (in case of vaginal delivery) and uterine wall (in case of cesarean section) in the suction area.
"Parchin has become a totemic item for the I.A.E.A.," said Tariq Rauf, a former head of nuclear verification and security for the agency.
It was a sleepless, unbearably tense night and respite only came after William Walker, the American diplomat who headed the Kosovo Verification Mission, arrived to conduct negotiations.
Still, we continue to read statements by officials of the United States and the United Kingdom that it is not enough that Hans Blix, head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, and his team of inspectors have unconditional access.
A 10-member joint verification committee headed by former Allahabad Chief Justice Shyamal Sen is looking into the demand.
"The question of war and peace remains, first of all, in the hands of Iraq," added Dr Blix who heads the UN monitoring, verification and inspection commission, Unmovic, which is charged with ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction.
Prospective longitudinal studies of head-injured individuals, with neuropathological verification, will not only improve understanding of head trauma as a risk factor for dementia but will also enhance treatment and prevention of a variety of neurodegenerative diseases.
Hans Blix, head of Unmovic (United Nations monitoring, verification and inspection commission), said there was "no evidence of prohibited weapons programmes".
