Room for a View
Killing the Defanged Tiger
Interview by Lorna Tychostup
Photo by Lorna Tychostup
Scott Ritter is a former Marine Corps Intelligence officer, who served with the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM] in Iraq from 1991-98. Working with hundreds of others, his job involved tracking down weapons of mass destruction. Before ultimately resigning, Ritter had been promoted to Chief of the Concealment Investigations Unit. His first book, Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem—Once and For All, was published in 1999. Ritter also filmed a documentary, Shifting Sands: The Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of Iraq, exposing the ramifications of the failure of the US policy of economic sanctions-based containment of Iraq. Ritter currently serves as the lead on-air analyst for Fox News on issues pertaining to Iraq.