 Robin noted that United States Pentagon officials involved in "special operations" viewed Pontecorvo's film on 27 August 2003.This was several months after the US had invaded Iraq, and it was encountering rising insurgency in Baghdad and other areas.After seeing Robin's film, on 10 September 2003 French Green Party deputies Noël Mamère, Martine Billard and Yves Cochet formally requested that a parliamentary commission be established on the "role of France in the support of military regimes in Latin America from 1973 to 1984" before the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Assembly.