1.   Also, remarks expected from Richard Butler on where he fits into the new inspection regime for presidential sites.

2.   American air power can also strike the eight presidential sites, which Saddam has put off limits to U.N. inspectors.

3.   Annan, the U.N. leader, agreed to form a new inspection group to check eight presidential sites that will now be open to investigation.

4.   Annan assured the president that diplomats who would be part of a special group inspecting presidential sites would merely accompany the weapons experts.

5.   Annan went to Baghdad with instructions to delineate presidential residences from the larger eight presidential sites, which are mapped but include many other buildings.

6.   Aziz confirmed that presidential sites were off limits for UN inspectors and said that the U.S. was using the issue of weapons inspections for political means.

7.   But some diplomats said the real test would come when inspectors want continuing access to even more sensitive areas, the so-called presidential sites.

8.   Butler is likely to face stiff opposition from the Iraqi government when he asks for access to inspect presidential sites that Iraq says are sensitive to its national security.

9.   Crude oil futures fell even after the UN and Iraq stayed deadlocked over access to presidential sites to inspect for chemical and biological weapons.

10.   Details of how the new-style searches are to be conducted at the presidential sites went to the Security Council Monday.