At 7:20 P.M., the Iraqis offered unconditional cooperation with the weapons inspectors.

The judges said they had also noted his "full and unconditional" cooperation with prosecutors.

The Council demanded that the Iraqis show their intentions with "unconditional and sustained cooperation."

No passage in the letter said plainly that Iraq would give unconditional cooperation for the inspections.

I made it very clear at that time what unconditional cooperation meant based on existing U.N. resolutions and Iraq's own commitments.

The Council said in its statement that Iraq must rescind its decision and "resume immediate, complete and unconditional cooperation."

Mr. Brammertz endorsed a Lebanese government request for a one-year extension of the year-old inquiry, and added that "full and unconditional cooperation from Syria to the commission remains crucial."

Mr. Blix's concluding statement on Friday was that "the period of disarmament through inspection could still be short, if 'immediate, active and unconditional cooperation' " were "forthcoming."

American officials seized on this wording as proof of their contention that Iraq has fallen far short of the "immediate, active and unconditional cooperation" that was specified in Resolution 1441.

She'd been warned by her superiors that an Anglo would not receive the tribe's unconditional cooperation.