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Title: Horizon Special – Hide & Seek In
Iraq – The Search For WMD
File Name: hideandseek.avi
Channel Transmitted: BBC2
Date: Sunday, 23 August 1992
Source: VHSRip
Format: XviD
Category: Documentary / Educational
A/V Info:
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Size: 370 MB (378,880 Kb / 387,973,120 bytes)
Running Time: 0:50:02.21
Format: .avi 528 x 400
Data Rate: 895 kbps
Video Codec: XviD (XviD 1.0.3)
Video Info: 25 fps 1023 Kbits/sec
Audio: English
Audio Codec: MPEG-1
Audio Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Audio Info: 48kHz PCM Stereo
About The Series:
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Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular
science and philosophy documentary programme.
The programme was first broadcast in 1964 with The
World of Buckminster Fuller which explored the
theories and structures of inventor Richard
Buckminster Fuller and included the Horizon
mission statement, The aim of Horizon is to
provide a platform from which some of the world's
greatest scientists and philosophers can
communicate their curiosity, observations and
reflections, and infuse into our common knowledge
their changing views of the universe.
There have been over 1000 episodes made and
broadcast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_(BBC_TV_series)
About The Episode:
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Films the search by the UN Security Council
inspectors for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Shows the enormity of Saddam Hussein's military
programme.
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/476302
This documentary by Horizon reveals the disturbing
discoveries made in over 40 inspections looking
for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
http://www.tv.com/horizon/hide-and-seek-in-iraq/episode/1263124/summary.html
United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was an
inspection regime created with the adoption of
United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 in
April 1991 to oversee Iraq's compliance with the
destruction of Iraqi chemical, biological, and
missile weapons facilities and to cooperate with
the International Atomic Energy Agency’s
efforts to eliminate nuclear weapon facilities all
in the aftermath of the Gulf War. The UNSCOM
inspection regime was packaged with several other
UN Security Council requirements, namely, that
Iraq’s ruling regime formally recognize
Kuwait as an independent state and pay out war
reparations for the destruction inflicted in the
Gulf War, including the firing of Kuwaiti oil
supplies and destruction of public infrastructure.
Until the UN Security Council saw that
Iraq’s weapons programs had been aborted and
Iraqi leaders had allowed monitoring systems to be
installed, the UN’s aforementioned sanctions
would continue to be imposed on Iraq.
The commission found corroborating evidence that
Rihab Rashid Taha, an Iraqi microbiologist
educated in England, had produced biological
weapons for Iraq in the 1980s. The destruction of
proscribed weapons and the associated facilities
was carried out mainly by Iraq, under constant
supervision by UNSCOM.
Inspectors withdrew in 1998, and disbanded the
following year amid allegations that the United
States had used the commission's resources to spy
on the Iraqi military.
The powers given to UNSCOM inspectors in Iraq
were: “unrestricted freedom of movement
without advance notice in Iraq”; the
“right to unimpeded access to any site or
facility for the purpose of the on-site
inspection…whether such site or facility be
above or below ground”; “the right to
request, receive, examine, and copy any record
data, or information…relevant to”
UNSCOM’s activities; and the “right to
take and analyze samples of any kind as well as to
remove and export samples for off-site
analysis.
Acceptance of the intrusion of the UNSCOM’s
inspectors on the part of the Iraqi regime was
slow coming. But with the threat of punitive
military action looming from the international
community, and particularly the U.S., Saddam
Husain begrudgingly allowed UNSCOM’s
inspectors into the country to begin their
work.
Between 1991 and 1995, UN inspectors uncovered a
massive program to develop biological and nuclear
weapons. A large amount of equipment was
confiscated and destroyed. Iraq by and large
refused to cooperate with UNSCOM and its
inspections as mandated by UN SC Res. 687 until
June 1992, ten months after deadline, at which
time the Iraqi government submitted “full,
final and complete reports” on all of its
weapons of mass destruction programs. These
reports, however, were found to be incomplete and
deficient, and at the same time UN inspectors were
subjected to harassment and threats on the part of
the Iraqi regime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSCOM
Under the terms of the ceasefire of March 1991,
corroborated by the resolution 687 of the UN
Security Council, a commission (UNSCOM) was
established to assure the dismantling of the Iraqi
missile program. They were only allowed to
purchase or produce missiles with a range no
longer than 150 km. At the end of the war, the
Iraqi government declared it had only 61
Al-Hussein and other ballistic missiles in its
arsenal. These weapons were destroyed under UNSCOM
supervision. This process was completed by July
1991. The western powers were however suspicious
that the Iraqi army may have hidden as many as 200
missiles. The Iraqis took advantage of the
provisions of the ceasefire by developing two
types of short-range ballistic missiles, the
Ababil-100 and the Al-Samoud, which were in an
experimental phase at the time of the Invasion of
Iraq in 2003. These projects were part of the
casus belli raised by the American administration
against Saddam Hussein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hussein_(missile)
Production Company: BBC
Producer: BLAKEWAY, Denys
Series Editor: BENNETT, Jana
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/476302?view=credit
Comments from Systemq:
Stage One: VHSRip (composite video, PAL_B) using
ION VCR2PC saved as MPEG-4 AVI file
Stage Two: VHS editing with Pinnacle Studio Plus
11, edited media saved as large AVI file (Full
Screen DV, 720 x 576, 28800 kbps, 25fps) –
approx 10.5Gb
Stage Three: Large AVI file (10.5Gb) reduced in
size with Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 3, media
saved as MPEG-4 AVI file (reducing 10.5Gb to 376Mb
– 70% Compression – 528 x 400, 895
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