BAGHDAD, December 15 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The United Nations was further strengthening weapons teams Sunday, December 15, after a record number of site inspections, as Iraqi dissidents plotting in London were accused of fudging the real issues to ensure a show of unity.

Another 20 inspectors were due to arrive in Baghdad during the day bringing their total number on the ground to 113, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The U.N. experts visited a record 11 sites Saturday, December 14, officially "the busiest day so far", testing the veracity of Baghdad's arms declaration delivered to the United Nations last weekend.

Almost half of the sites were connected to Baghdad's short-range missile program allowed under U.N. resolutions, an Iraqi official said.

A team of U.N. nuclear experts on Sunday swooped on a military industrial firm previously linked with missile warhead production that they visited after giving prior notice in an earlier inspection.

Three four-wheel drive cars of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) pulled up in front of a facility of the Um al-Maarik (Mother of All Battles) General Company, just west of Baghdad, in the morning.

IAEA experts visited another facility of the same company south of Baghdad on November 30, after warning the company director knew they were coming, denying the element of surprise deemed crucial to the inspections.

At least four groups of experts from the IAEA and the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) left their headquarters in Baghdad during the morning.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Naji Sabri accused Britain and the United States Sunday of waging "undeclared war" on Iraq after their air forces launched three new strikes which commanders here said hit civilian facilities.

Sabri also strongly attacked Kuwait for hosting the allied aircraft which patrol a no-fly zone over southern Iraq, in a protest letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan released to journalists.

"These daily violations committed by U.S. and British planes with the backing of Kuwait's government and the barbaric bombings of Iraq's towns and villages can be compared to an undeclared war," Sabri wrote.

The foreign minister called for the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (UNIKOM), which has monitored a demilitarized zone on the border since the Gulf War ceasefire, "log these violations and demand that they cease".

He dismissed UNIKOM's "explanation that it lacked the means to detect the violations" and called on Annan to ensure the U.N. mission had the equipment to carry out its mandate and inform the Security Council accordingly.

Sabri demanded that the council "assume its responsibilities and put an end" to allied enforcement of the southern no-fly zone, saying the patrols amounted to "state terrorism" and a "flagrant violation of Iraq's sovereignty".

Baghdad has long opposed the two so-called air exclusion zones which the U.S. and Britain have enforced over both southern and northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War without the sanction of any specific U.N. resolution.

The patrols have resulted in almost daily clashes with Iraqi air defenses in the past four years, some of them deadly.

U.S. Central Command claimed Saturday's trio of strikes in the southern provinces of Wasat, Misan and Dhi Qar targeted "air defense communications facilities" after "hostile threats and acts" by Iraq.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz has paid tribute to Hollywood star Sean Penn saying he spoke out strongly against U.S. war threats against Iraq.

"Aggression goes completely against the interests of the American people and threatens peace and security, not only in this region, but throughout the world," official dailies quoted the U.S. actor and director as telling Aziz in a meeting Saturday.

The Iraqi deputy prime minister congratulated Penn on his "opposition to all wars and all forms of aggression" and urged other peace activists to follow his lead "so that peace and security can reign throughout the world."

The star had previously declined to comment to reporters, insisting he wanted to avoid the limelight and concentrate on understanding the standoff between his country and the Iraqi regime.