UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has named a veteran arms expert as the acting chief weapons inspector to replace Hans Blix, who oversaw a fruitless search for illicit Iraqi weapons and is retiring.

UN INSPECTORS yesterday found 11 empty chemical warheads in “excellent” condition at an Iraqi ammunition storage area where they were inspecting bunkers built in the late 1990s.

UN inspectors today found 11 empty chemical warheads in “excellent” condition at an Iraqi ammunition storage area where they were inspecting bunkers built in the late 1990s.

UN arms inspectors showed off state-of-the-art equipment yesterday and reminded President Saddam Hussein his own palace complexes will no longer be off-limits when they resume their hunt for banned Iraqi weapons.