UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said the inspection team "is ready to move as quickly as is practicable" to begin work in Iraq. He also said the Security Council is at the beginning of the process, not the end.
As US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld prepared to testify yesterday on Iraq before a House panel, the Pentagon said it was seeking to move some B-2 bombers closer to Baghdad. Officials said Tuesday the administration is seeking permission from Britain to base a small number of B-2 stealth bombers on the island of Diego Garcia in the northern Indian Ocean, instead of their current base in Missouri.
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