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Thanks, piasa. Don't worry to much about the links (unless they are immediately at hand). I'm looking more for a thumbnail sketch about your beliefs or understandings regarding some of the details that are unfolding now about SR's past.

In one of your posts you quote a source as suggesting that Ritter spied for Israel.
1. Do you give any credence to this possibility?
2. What would be his motive to spy for them?
  1. Is Ritter a Jew?
  2. Is his wife Marina a (Russian) Jew?
  3. Could Mossad have been blackmailing SR? (re: pedophilia or ?)
  4. Could the connection to Mossad have been via Marina through the FSB/SVR to Mossad? (aka, the alleged close connection between the KGB and Mossad?)
Another of your posts suggests that Hussein believed that Ritter was acting as agent for Mossad and the CIA. But once the Iraqi Mukhabarat got wind of American intelligence concerns (via loose lips in UNSCOM) that ours side feared Ritter might be an agent for the SVR and Mossad, wouldn't the Mukhabarat have clandestinely tested what Ritter's real allegiances were?
1. What if the Mukhabarat set Ritter up with a test where they left highly classified info about (for instance) Hezbollah out in plain view for Ritter to see. Ritter passes that info on to Mossad which in turn takes public action on that information. Mukhabarat can now conclusively prove Ritter feeds info to the Mossad. Couldn't this also be a basis for the blackmail of Ritter by the Mukhabarat?
Do you give any credence to the suspicion that Iraq was blackmailing Ritter based on info they may have possessed about SR's Pedophilia (keeping in mind the critical timeline you presented of Dec. 1998 to June 1999)?

Whew, that ought to cure you the habit of offering to answer a "few" questions! Take on what ever part of the above that interests you. I guess you can tell from these questions, that I'm viewing his pair of 2001 arrests in NY as merely an artifact of the bribe/blackmail that Iraq held over Ritter's head, and not the core of what Iraq had. Actually, it seems NY is a bit of side issue in the question of what did Iraq have on him, except for the major credibility hit Ritter takes out of this mess.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Regards,

--Boot Hill