U.N. Again Searches Baghdad University

BAGHDAD — A team of U.N. inspectors visited Baghdad University on Tuesday while another group headed to the northern Iraqi province of Mosul to search for weapons of mass destruction.

Biological and nuclear teams left for Mosul, about 250 miles north of Baghdad, the capital, at dawn.

A United Nations spokesman said that they would stay overnight but that he had no details of their mission.

At the university, at least eight inspectors entered labs in the medical and biotechnology departments.

The search came a day after U.N. biology experts, acting on information in Iraq’s voluminous weapons declaration, searched a genetics institute at the school.

Lamees Gregor, dean of the biotechnology department, said some classes were interrupted so professors could speak with the inspectors or open labs. “They inquired about some scientists, researchers and professors in the department and took their names,” she said.