11.   Crude rose after United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq postponed a visit to a suspected weapons site after Iraqi authorities refused to cooperate with them.

12.   During his visit to Baghdad next week, Butler is expected to press for access to suspected weapons sites that Iraq has declared off limits for national security reasons.

13.   For now, the team has left only a skeleton crew of seven inspectors behind to monitor video surveillance of suspected weapons sites.

14.   For over a week now, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has blocked the weapons inspectors by refusing to allow Americans to participate in inspections of suspected Iraqi weapons sites.

15.   He also said proposed checks on suspected biological weapons sites would not stop cheating.

16.   He has devoted his intelligence service to an endless game of cat and mouse to hide his suspected weapons caches from U.N. inspections.

17.   He said he reiterated that the UN had the right to immediate, unrestricted access to site where suspected weapons of mass destruction are believed to be stored.

18.   Iraq for a second day prevented one UN team from inspecting suspected weapons sites, protesting that the number of Americans and Britons on the team was unacceptably high.

19.   Just this week, Iraq prevented inspectors from visiting three suspected weapons sites.

20.   Last January, Iraq blocked UNSCOM teams from inspecting suspected weapons sites, then expelled UNSCOM completely, forcing a crisis.