ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: We go now to Iraq where U.N. inspectors expanded their reach in the hunt for suspected illegal weapons. CNN'S Rym Brahimi is in Baghdad with a look at where inspectors fanned out.</s>RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Well, with the opening of an office in the city of Mosel, the U.N. weapons inspectors are now expanding and accelerating their work here in Iraq. That city, about 4.5 hour drive north of the Iraqi capital, a team was out there earlier in the day to open a permanent office. So far they've only been working out of temporary work spaces in a hotel. Now these five sites were checked out today. Some of them in the Iraqi capital, and alcohol brewery. Two nuclear teams were out as well. One team was out at the University of Basra. That's at about a 5.5 hour drive south of Baghdad, asking questions apparently, and asking for lists of top researchers at that university. Now we were also shown on Iraqi TV pictures of one team that was visiting again a site belonging to the huge military industrialization commission of Iraq. Now we were showing pictures of the inspectors meeting with officials. We were shown pictures of them taking samples. And at a very stressed time, we can actually hear them asking questions of the Iraqi staff.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's in these boxes?</s>BRAHIMI: Now the state run media is also pursuing an ongoing campaign for support within Iraq. A defiant minister of military industrialization was shown on Iraqi TV with the minister of telecommunications and the minister of industry, visiting a new telephone cable project. The minister said the U.S. and Britain cannot prevent Iraq and its people from taking their place among modern nations. Also shown on state run TV, tribal leaders from western provinces reaffirming their allegiance at this meeting in support of the government. Rym Brahimi, CNN, Baghdad.
U.N. Inspectors Expand Reach in Hunt for Weapons in Iraq