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Ritter cries foul at sex arrest 'smear'
Guardian/UK ^
| 1/24/03
| http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,881300,00.html
Posted on 01/23/2003 10:44:20 PM PST by kattracks
Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector and an outspoken critic of war in Iraq, yesterday claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign after it emerged that he had been arrested in an internet sex sting in June 2001. Details of the arrest emerged in a local New York state newspaper last week. Reports said Mr Ritter, 44, had been charged with attempted child endangerment after arranging, in an online chatroom, to meet what he thought was a 16-year-old girlat a Burger King restaurant. The girl turned out to be an undercover policewoman. The case was later dismissed.
Mr Ritter cancelled a trip to Baghdad on Tuesday and has instead been appearing on talk shows to defend his reputation. In an interview with CNN on Wednesday he refused to discuss details of the arrest and attempted to shift the fo cus on to who leaked the story. "The case was dismissed. The file was sealed ... Why did this come up now?" he said.
"I have no way of knowing why this happened. But the effect is obvious. I was supposed to fly to Baghdad on a personal initiative that could have had great ramifications in regards issues of war and peace."
The New York Post said Mr Ritter had been caught in a similar case involving a 14-year-old girl in April 2001 but was not charged.
Mr Ritter, a former US marine, spent seven years as a UN weapons inspector, quitting in 1998. He has since become a thorn in the side of the Bush administration, which he accuses of warmongering.
For the past two years he has maintained that Iraq's stock of biological and chemical weapons is negligible or non-existent and that the country has no capacity to build new ones. He also says a nuclear capability is a distant prospect.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: camelfaqir; deviancy; iraq; pedophile; pedophilia; perversion; ritter; rottshitter; saddam; scottritter; selfdetonation; un; weaponsinspections; wmd
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posted on
01/23/2003 10:44:20 PM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Now it's international news.
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posted on
01/23/2003 10:44:47 PM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
I knew it ....someone hurt his feelings
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posted on
01/23/2003 10:45:44 PM PST
by
woofie
To: kattracks
The New York Post said Mr Ritter had been caught in a similar case involving a 14-year-old girl in April 2001 but was not charged.
Besides that he is a total pervert I wonder what the Iraqis have on him. Camel sex ?
To: kattracks
hehehe
To: John Lenin
Besides that he is a total pervert I wonder what the Iraqis have on him. Camel sex ?An unpaid invoice for goat rentals.
To: John Lenin
Probably sex with an under-age camel.
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posted on
01/23/2003 10:51:44 PM PST
by
Free ThinkerNY
(((Scott Ritter=Benedict Arnold)))
To: Free ThinkerNY
Probably a male camel at that.
To: kattracks
He has since become a thorn in the side of the Bush administration...Not any more!
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posted on
01/23/2003 10:55:38 PM PST
by
ppaul
To: kattracks
If these crimes were done by a high profile pro Bush supporter (highly unlikely) the news would be on his case 24/7 and the libs know it. They would have to devote all coverage of an entire news network to just to cover his story.
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Why is this considered a smear. It's the truth!
To: John Lenin
Maybe it's not camels. After all, the guy in the picture is Ritter's real true love.
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posted on
01/23/2003 11:01:24 PM PST
by
Free ThinkerNY
(((Scott Ritter=Benedict Arnold)))
To: kattracks
"I have no way of knowing why this happened. But the effect is obvious. I was supposed to fly to Baghdad on a personal initiative that could have had great ramifications in regards issues of war and peace."
File it under "Actions Have Consequences." Whiny liberals try to excuse their bad behaviors.
To: kattracks
"The case was dismissed. The file was sealed ... Why did this come up now?" he said.I don't suppose his CNN interviewer asked, "Why was it dismissed? Why was it sealed? Why weren't you charged in the first sting?"
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posted on
01/23/2003 11:11:18 PM PST
by
lainie
To: kattracks
You forgot the CNN hero alert
15
posted on
01/23/2003 11:11:50 PM PST
by
byteback
To: lainie
Ritter "This thing in Burger King was no big deal"
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posted on
01/23/2003 11:13:10 PM PST
by
woofie
To: woofie
No Case For Double Whoppers With Cheese! Make Love (with underage girls) Not War!
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posted on
01/23/2003 11:32:22 PM PST
by
lainie
To: kattracks
Ritter cries foul?
Ritter is foul!
To: kattracks
He's been caught twice... How times did he do it and not get caught??? What are the odds of being caught at all, not good I'm sure...
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posted on
01/24/2003 12:23:01 AM PST
by
DB
(© This space for sale)
To: lainie
Now that Ritter is no longer of any use to Saddam, in fact he might be a liability, I wonder if he'll have an "accident" of some sort.
Or maybe a "suicide" somewhere in his future? And it could all be blamed on the VRWC.
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