UN weapons experts began a fifth day of inspections in Iraq today.
Inspectors swooped on a military industrial complex in Baghdad and a distillery to the northeast.
Stressing that their mission is still in its early days, the inspectors say they have found no evidence yet of banned weapons programmes and met no obstruction by Iraqi authorities seemingly eager to avoid any clash that might hasten war.
A team of inspectors entered a compound run by Iraq's Military Industrialisation Commission in Baghdad. Another team spent little over an hour at a private distillery 30 kilometres northeast of Baghdad. It was not clear why the experts went there.
Iraq has complained to the United Nations over repeated US and British air raids in two "no-fly" zones over the north and south of the country.
Iraqi officials said the bombing in the southern port city of Basra killed four people at oil company offices. The US military said its planes had launched "precision-guided" weapons at Iraqi air defences and that they always took pains to avoid hitting civilians.
In Britain, the government said it would release a dossier of oppression in Iraq later today. "The dossier makes for harrowing reading, with accounts of torture, rape and other horrific human rights abuses," advance extracts of British Foreign Secretary Mr Jack Straw's speech said. "It makes it clear these are carried out as part of the deliberate policy of the regime".
However, Amnesty International accused the British government of a "cold andcalculated manipulation" of the human rights situation in Iraq to suit its own ends.