Unmovic and the IAEA agreed that their helicopters will take appropriate number of minders on board, as necessary.

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Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, Hatfill was "one of the very few that applied to UNMOVIC" independently, the official said.

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With only 17 inspectors in Baghdad from the monitoring body, Unmovic, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the work has hardly begun.

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Given the structure of the resolution as a whole, the views of UNMOVIC and the IAEA will be highly significant in this respect.

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An UNMOVIC spokesman said Hatfill is one of some 230 trainees and since 2000 has attended U.N. training courses -- including a month-long course in France.

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Hans Blix, the head of Unmovic, says that with additional training he hopes to boost the number of experts combing Iraq to 300 early in the new year.

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However the heads of those agencies, Mr Blix of Unmovic and Mr ElBaradei of the IAEA, told Iraq on Thursday that time is running out for them to "drastically" improve their co-operation.

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If UNMOVIC were to compromise on either of these, we might end up with Iraq begin declared free of WMD, when if fact all that would be certain is that UNMOVIC could not find any evidence of WMD.

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Even if, unlikely as it seems at present, Mr Hussein agrees to give carte blanche to Unmovic to scour Iraq for evidence of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, that may not be enough to convince everyone that the country is no longer a threat.

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