Despite the criticism the report makes of the UN structure, the member states and certain individuals of which more will be revealed in the Volcker committee's final report, due in October it also stresses that oil-for-food largely succeeded in its basic task of easing the suffering of ordinary Iraqis while depriving Saddam of weapons of mass destruction.

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This 10-minute film loop features an ordinary house filled with ordinary people slowly burning, the occupants not even noticing their own destruction as they go through the motions of living draped in thick ennui.

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