UN experts inspected an animal vaccine production lab and an active munitions factory near Baghdad today, the second day of a hunt for suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The inspections proceeded mainly smoothly, just as they did on Wednesday when the weapons inspectors resumed work in Iraq after a four-year gap.
But taking no chances the inspectors ordered electronic debugging equipment to make sure the Iraqi authorities were not eavesdropping on their headquarters.
Russia expressed satisfaction at the "successful start" of the inspections and hailed the "mood of constructive cooperation" between Iraq and the United Nations experts.
An Iraqi military spokesman said US and British planes patrolling a "no-fly" in northern Iraq bombed civilian targets in Nineveh province, killing one civilian.
There was no immediate word from Washington or London on the report. The United States has threatened a military assault on Iraq if President Saddam Hussein obstructed the inspections. Iraq has denied possessing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction, a stance Washington has questioned.
Two teams of inspectors accompanied by Iraqi officials spent several hours in both facilities, talking to employees, checking equipment and taking samples.
A group of inspectors spent four hours at a foot and mouth vaccination laboratory in the Dora area south of Baghdad. The once government-run facility has been defunct since weapons inspectors dismantled its equipment in 1996.
Another team spent little over three hours at Nasr (Victory) complex in the Taji area, some 25 km (16 miles) north of the capital, where there are factories producing light conventional ammunition and heavy civilian machinery.
The two facilities had been mentioned by the United States in recent months as sites suspected of producing banned weapons.