Engines for long-range missiles have turned up in Jordan from unguarded sites in Iraq that were once monitored for materials that could produce banned weapons, UN inspectors said on Wednesday.

In a closed-door UN Security Council meeting, Demetrius Perricos, the acting director of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission, warned that too many pieces of equipment were leaving Iraq, some as scrap.

?We found a few more engines and a few other items in Jordan,? Perricos told Reuters. ?It is getting bad. Too many things are coming out.?

UNMOVIC, using photographs and serial numbers, previously reported discovering SA-2 engines among scrap in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. They were used in Iraq?s Al Samoud 2 banned missile program.

The motors found in Jordan were also SA-2 engines ?and that is why we were interested,? Perricos said.

UN inspectors left Iraq shortly before the war in March 2003 and have not been allowed to return since. The United States has sent its own teams to search for weapons of mass destruction. The fate of the search teams is not known under the new Iraqi interim government that takes office on June 30.

Perricos briefed the Security Council on his recent report that showed satellite pictures of the engines discovered in the Netherlands and a site in Iraq stripped of its equipment, possibly by looters.

<B>Pakistan protests</B>

The site, called the Shumokh stores, northwest of Baghdad, had contained equipment that could be used for chemical and biological weapons and was once monitored by UNMOVIC.

Perricos suggested that UNMOVIC?s arms experts could be used in other international disarmament areas, such as a new council anti-terrorist program that seeks to punish black marketeers who traffic in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons components.

But Pakistan?s UN ambassador, Munir Akram, lashed out at Perricos, saying his commission should be shut down and had no right to propose other tasks, diplomats reported.

?We see this as an organization which is unable to do its job,? Akram told reporters afterward. ?The job may not be there to be done, and therefore we think that the quicker we find some way to certify that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the better it is.?

Other delegations, notably Russia and Germany, disagreed, arguing that UNMOVIC?s expertise in Iraq should not be wasted.

Pakistan admitted this year that Abdul Qadeer Khan, a scientist revered as the father of the country?s nuclear bomb, had smuggled nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya, and was under house arrest.