Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Qaddafi has backed U.N. weapons inspectors working in Iraq. But he urged both sides in the dispute, the United States and Iraq, to act with "rationale" and respect. He told Baghdad to cooperate and give the "indispensable conditions" necessary for the inspectors to complete their job, while warning Washington that "if we use reason, there is no rationale for war." Qaddafi put no time limit on the inspections, unlike U.S. President George W. Bush who has said "time is running out," referring to a matter of weeks rather than months for trying to resolve the issue of whether Iraq holds weapons of mass destruction. His comments came during an interview for CNN at the first meeting of African Union leaders in Ethiopia on Monday.

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