(CBS) A newly reinforced corps of U.N. weapons monitors, rapidly expanding its schedule of surprise inspections, sent teams out across the Iraqi countryside again Wednesday and made return visits to a large complex where Iraq once worked on a nuclear bomb.

Deep in the western Iraqi desert, near the Syrian border, another U.N. team was in the second day of its inspection of a remote uranium mining site. Iraq extracted as much as 100 tons of uranium there in its quest to build an atomic bomb.

Meanwhile, CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips reports there was a very-public war council in Baghdad Wednesday, featuring Saddam Hussein and sons Odai and Qusai. The message: Iraq — even if faced with the might of the United States — will fight.

"War is not liked," Saddam said. "It has its sacrifices." But Iraq faces a choice between "losing honor" or "sticking to the faith.

"God willing," he added, "your enemy will lose."

It was the start of the third week of inspections, after a four-year gap, under a new U.N. Security Council resolution mandating that Iraq surrender any weapons of mass destruction and report on nuclear, biological and chemical research and production.

That report, totaling 12,000 pages, was filed over the weekend and was already being scrutinized closely for any new sources of concern about the Iraqi arsenal and intentions.

Saddam's propaganda machine has swung into action raising suspicions about the way the declaration is being examined. Iraq has charged that allowing the U.S. to photocopy the documents for distribution to the other permanent U.N. Security Council members gave Washington the chance to "distort or manipulate the submission for political reasons."

That's code for "cheating," reports Phillips, suggesting the U.S. might alter the contents or leave something out so it could accuse Iraq of lying or trying to hide something. Iraq has always claimed the U.S. would use any pretext to attack. Now they're just about accusing Washington of manufacturing that pretext.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China — were given uncensored copies of the report. Copies given to the other 10 council members will have sensitive details of nuclear technology edited out, a move that some of the countries saw as an affront.

On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that decision was "fine, but the approach and style were wrong."

Such new information would aid in planning the arms monitors' work in Iraq over the coming months. U.N. officials hope to cover hundreds of industrial and research installations, many of them "dual-use" sites whose products or equipment could be devoted to either civilian or military use.

Twenty-eight new inspectors flew to Baghdad on Tuesday, bolstering the U.N. operation to 70 inspectors. U.N. technicians also readied the first of eight helicopters expected to join the monitoring effort.

The United Nations hopes to have 80 to 100 inspectors at work in the field each day by late December. They come from both the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, UNMOVIC, whose inspectors specialize in chemical and biological weapons and missiles.

Other nuclear inspectors Wednesday again visited al-Tuwaitha, Iraq's major nuclear research center, 15 miles southeast of Baghdad. In the 1980s, Iraqi scientists and engineers at al-Tuwaitha worked on developing technology for enriching uranium to levels usable in bombs.

The complex contains more than 100 buildings, many of which were destroyed in U.S. bombing during the 1991 Gulf War. U.N. officials said the new round of inspections there would last at least through Thursday, as IAEA specialists checked for any signs of revived Iraqi interest in nuclear weaponry.

Another team Wednesday drove to an industrial zone north of Baghdad to inspect a factory belonging to al-Karama, a company long involved in missile production. Under U.N. resolutions adopted after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War, Iraq is forbidden to possess missiles with a range greater than 90 miles.

The U.N. inspections of the 1990s led to destruction of tons of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons, and to dismantlement of Iraq's program to try to build atomic bombs. That monitoring regime broke down in 1998 amid U.N.-Iraqi disputes.

If the monitors ultimately report full Iraqi cooperation with the U.N. disarmament demands, U.N. resolutions call for the Security Council to consider lifting economic sanctions imposed on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in 1990. If, on the other hand, Iraq is found in noncompliance, the council may consider military action against Iraq.

President Bush has threatened military action in that case even without U.N. authority.