And this news about former UN arms inspector, Scott Ritter, once accused by Iraq of spying for the United States, he returned to Iraq this weekend to film a documentary about weapons sites and the impact of UN sanctions. Ritter told the Washington Post that President Saddam Hussein had agreed to give him and his crew access to weapons facilities throughout Iraq, with the aim of judging whether Iraq had rebuilt its arsenal since the inspectors left. Ritter resigned from the UN Special Commission, UNSCOM, then in charge of Iraqi disarmament two years ago, accusing the United Nations, United States of not being tough enough on Iraq when it violated Security Council resolutions.

The former Marine Corps intelligence officer, Ritter, has repeatedly denied that UNSCOM was turned into a US spying agency to topple Saddam, but months after his resignation, Ritter said Iraq no longer had a significant capability to use any weapons of mass destruction. He has said Washington and the United Nations should reassess their positions, not insist on 100 percent disarmament and stop killing the children, with more than half-a-million dead as a result of the sanctions.