UN experts have resumed their hunt for banned weapons in Iraq.
The weapons experts, working on the Muslim rest day for the second week in a row today, drove to the sprawling al-Tuwaitha complex, the main site of Iraq's nuclear programme.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has searched the plant at Salman Pak, 20 km (12 miles) south of Baghdad, several times since the inspectors returned to Iraq last month, and scoured it on many occasions between 1991 and 1998.
It was not immediately clear if any other teams from the IAEA or the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) were on the prowl today.
Last Friday, an UNMOVIC biological team was unable to gain access to some locked laboratories at Baghdad's Communicable Disease Control Centre because staff had taken the keys home on their weekly holiday. After calling in senior Iraqi and UNMOVIC officials, the experts sealed the doors and returned next day.
Mr Mohamed El-Baradei, head of the IAEA, told the UN Security Council yesterday Iraq must provide more data on its past nuclear arms programme, particularly designs of now-destroyed bomb-making equipment.
He told reporters Iraq had cooperated with inspectors since their return to the country last month after a four-year gap.
"Iraq has been opening doors to us, Iraq has been giving us immediate access to sites," Mr El-Baradei said. "However, we have not gotten what we need in terms of evidence."