Security Council split as Blix returns to brief on arms dossier.(Foreign News) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: December 19, 2002| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2002 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE CHIEF United Nations weapons inspector, Hans Blix, returns before his political masters in the UN Security Council today for the first time since his inspectors returned to Iraq to resume their hunt for weapons of mass destruction three weeks ago.

It will be a key briefing for the Security Council, whose members have the power to decide whether Iraq is sufficiently in breach of international law to unleash a war that would bring down Saddam Hussein.

Mr Blix, and his Egyptian colleague, Mohammed al- Baradei, who leads the UN team of nuclear experts in Iraq, are to ...