21.   After the gulf war, the U.N. inspection team tried to track down his weaponry, and got close.

22.   But he said he advised Butler, the chairman of the inspection team, that the time had come to act, and that Butler agreed.

23.   But Iraq remained defiant, issuing a statement saying it would not back down from its decision on Wednesday to refuse to allow Americans to join the inspection teams.

24.   But Rolf Ekeus, then the chairman of the U.N. inspections team, needed help.

25.   But when U.S. officers tried to inspect his headquarters recently, the unusually quiet general made a provocative offer to the NATO inspection team.

26.   Butler wrote a letter to the Security Council pointing out numerous U.N. declarations asserting that Iraq cannot dictate the makeup of the inspection teams.

27.   Butler responded by recalling all his inspection teams, and no work was done for several weeks.

28.   Butler vowed to continue including American experts on his inspection teams despite demands by Saddam that the number of Americans be reduced.

29.   City officials expect inspection teams to finish their walk-through of damaged homes by Friday, assuming floodwaters ebb as expected.

30.   Clinton said Saddam must not only cooperate with the inspection teams but allow them unfettered access to suspected sites.