Iraq Asks For Return Of U.N. Weapon Inspectors

Iraq's new government has asked U.N. weapons inspectors to return to the country. The Associated Press reports:

"The return of U.N. inspectors to Iraq is an urgent necessity; not to search for weapons of mass destruction but to write the final report about the nonexistence of (such) weapons ... in Iraq, which will enable the lifting of sanctions," Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters in Cairo.