BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who was barred from working in Iraq two months ago, left Iraq on Tuesday after inspecting eight "sensitive" sites "without any problem", Iraqi and U.N. officials said. "Scott Ritter has informed the Iraqi side that he has completed his mission without any problem and he has thanked the Iraqi side for the cooperation extended to his team," the Iraqi news agency (INA) said, quoting head of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate Hussam Mohammed Amin. "Scott Ritter and the majority of his team left this morning," a U.N. spokesperson said. "They inspected a total of eight sensitive sites to the full satisfaction of the inspection team," the spokesperson said. INA said Ritter's team had ended its mission three days before schedule and left Iraq for Bahrain. So-called sensitive sites have been in the past the scene for standoffs between Iraq and the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM), charged with scrapping Iraq's biological, chemical and ballistic weapons. Sites which Iraq labels "sensitive" include military and intelligence installations, where UNSCOM inspectors believe it may still be concealing material related to banned weapons. An official Iraqi newspaper said on Tuesday that American Ritter had been sent back to Iraq by the United States to harm a deal over weapons inspections. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan struck a deal with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz on February 23, defusing a standoff with Iraq over inspections of eight so-called presidential sites and averting U.S.-led use of force against Iraq. Ritter's mission is the first test of Iraq's pledge to give the inspectors unrestricted access under the accord. But UNSCOM has said Ritter would not inspect any of the presidential sites. Joint teams of inspectors and diplomats have yet to be announced for this.