Two Men Enter UN Inspectors' Headquarters in Baghdad

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Two Men Enter UN Inspectors' Headquarters in Baghdad

In separate incidents, two men, one carrying knives and the other shouting "Save me," entered the compound housing the UN weapons inspectors' offices in Baghdad on Saturday morning.

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In separate incidents, two men, one carrying knives and the other shouting "Save me," entered the compound housing the UN weapons inspectors' offices in Baghdad on Saturday morning.

About 7:50 a.m. local time (0450 GMT), a man preliminarily identified as an Iraqi government employee managed to get into a parking lot within the UN compound through a side entrance, the inspectors' spokesman Hiro Ueki said.

"He was stopped and searched and some knives were found on him,"Ueki said, adding "He was handed over to the Iraqi police. He is being interrogated by police."

About 45 minutes later, another young man, who appeared to be anIraqi and in his 20s, climbed into the hood of a vehicle carrying the inspectors as they were about to depart from the site, shouting "Save me!" in Arabic and English, witnesses said.

The man, carrying a notebook, pulled open the door of the stopped UN vehicle and was later allowed into the car.

He refused to surrender to Iraqi soldiers guarding outside the UN compound known as the Canal Hotel, but later UN security men arrived and took him inside the fenced compound, witnesses said.

The incidents occurred as UN inspectors were setting off to carry out their daily hunt for banned weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but it was not immediately known whether the two men were linked to the disarmament operations.

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