These are the first outsiders to look at Iraq's nuclear sites since a dispute over UN weapons inspections sparked major bombing raids by U-S and British forces in 1998. Iraq has agreed to allow a four or five person team from the International Atomic Energy Agency to carry out a routine inspection inside the country. Saddam Hussein will be persuaded to accept it. I'm not optimistic about this but it is too early to foreclose that possibility. That's about the time Baghdad blocked efforts by UN weapons inspectors to make intrusive, surprise inspections of suspected nuclear, chemical, biological and missile weapons sites.
Tensions continue with two or three western bombing raids a week over Iraq in the year since.
The UN Security Council has craft a new weapons inspection program but so far Iraq has been dismissive of the effort. They are enforcing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty that Iraq signed in 1972.