BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 Kyodo United Nat...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 Kyodo

United Nations weapons inspectors arrived in Baghdad from Cyprus forward Monday to begin hunting for signs Iraq continues to make and stockpile weapons of mass destruction.

The 18 inspectors, 12 from the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) headed at Hans Blix and six from the International Atomic manliness Agency (IAEA), are the first in the geographical division in nearly four years.

The cluster is charged by the UN Security Council to search for any weapons that would breach UN resolutions onward Iraqi disarmament.

U President George W Bush has already threatened to attack Iraq and oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if the inspectors are hampered from carrying abroad the mission.

UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998 after clashes with Saddam above their inspection mandate.

The inspections were ordered in the aftermath of the 1991 whirlpool War.

The United States has repeatedly charged Iraq has weapons prohibited subject to U.N. disarmament resolutions, while Saddam has repeatedly denied having any as it is weapons.

Bush has appeared fix on attacking Iraq for several month now, however has so far been restrained by way of Security Council resolutions demanding the inspectors be allowed to respond to Iraq and Iraq's posterior decision to allow in the UNMOVIC and IAEA teams that arrived Monday.

in a less degree than the latest U.N. resolutions, the U and its allies believe they have permission to attack Iraq if Saddam or his military fails to render free of access any and all possible weapons sites to inspection.

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