Copies of a massive Iraqi document detailing the country’s chemical, biological and nuclear activities were today flown out of Baghdad for analysis by experts at the United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency.

The UN Security Council resolution on Iraq in full.

Weapons inspectors could be back in Iraq within days of a United Nations decision to order their return, the world’s nuclear watchdog said today.

Iraq today took reporters to a suspected chemical and biological warfare plant and showed them sacks marked agricultural pesticides as proof of innocence.

A war on Iraq which toppled dictator Saddam Hussein could lead directly to takeover by anti-Western Islamic fundamentalists, destabilising the whole Middle East, the former head of UN weapons inspectors in the country warned today.

A former United Nations weapons inspector has accused the United States in a new documentary of manipulating the UN to provoke a confrontation with Saddam Hussein as a pretext for US air strikes on Iraq.