Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter's controversial film traces the history of the U.N. Special Commission, known as UNSCOM, which was created by the U.N. Security Council after the 1991 Gulf War to oversee the destruction of Iraq's biological and chemical weapons and the missiles used to deliver them. The council replaced it in December 1999 with a new agency, the U.N. Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission. Ritter accuses the United States of manipulating the United Nations to provoke a confrontation with Saddam Hussein as a pretext for U.S. airstrikes on Iraq.

The film has attracted controversy due to it's funding by an Iraqi businessman, and due to the contentious nature of Mr. Ritter himself. His views have shifted considerably since 1998, when he resigned his post as the head of the team in charge of uncovering and countering Iraq's efforts to conceal its weapons programs, claiming that UNSCOM was being undermined by the U.N. Security Council's weakness in enforcing their own resolutions. Spotlight host Mark Hertsgaard addresses the issues as part of an introduction to the film.

WorldLink TV Spotlight is hosted by Mark Hertsgaard.

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