In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq

In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq is a 2001 documentary by Scott Ritter that discusses the UNSCOM inspections in Iraq. Ritter was a chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. These inspections were in search of "weapons of mass destruction" during the later years of the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Background

When Ritter resigned from UNSCOM in 1998, he claimed that the United Nations Security Council was caving to Iraq's demands that certain sensitive sites not be inspected and contended that Iraq remained a danger. In In Shifting Sands, Ritter reserves his position. ==Plot==

Plot

The film traces the history of UNSCOM, created by the United Nations Security Council in 1991 after the Gulf War to oversee the destruction of Iraq's biological and chemical weapons. Ritter repeats the charge that the U.S. used UNSCOM to spy on Iraq and alleged that weapons inspectors had been given a deadline to give the United States a pretext to conduct a weeks-long bombing campaign in March 1998. ==Financing==

Financing

The film cost $530,000 to make, $400,000 of which provided by Iraqi American businessman Shakir al Khafaji. Ritter stated that he had checked out al-Khafaji via a reporter with sources in the CIA and was confident that he was not getting any quid pro quo from the Iraqi government. ==Reception==

Reception

Chief UN inspector Richard Butler, Ritter's boss, called Ritter's allegations "completely false" and described the movie as a "propaganda film." Al-Khafaji pled guilty to multiple felony charges in 2004 for his involvement with the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal. ==See also==

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