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Former UN weapons inspector rails against war in Iraq, warns of terrorismBy HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press WriterTOKYO - Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter blasted the U.S. case against Iraq on Wednesday as based on "circumstantial evidence" and warned that invading the country would be a "long and horrific" invitation to terrorism. The remarks came just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) was set to present the U.N. Security Council a detailed argument on the disarmament of Iraq. Ritter, a former Gulf War (news - web sites) veteran who lead U.N. weapons inspections...

Editors Note: Some will call what you are about to read a "smear campaign" against Scott Ritter. We disagree. What you are about to read comes from credible sources cited above, and throughout our expose of UNSCOM's most controversial, combative Weapons Inspector. Throughout our expose we use Scott Ritter's own words from his book "Endgame" and surround his comments with interviews from sources that seemingly contradict what Ritter said in the past, and is saying now. If we are to believe Scott Ritter is telling the truth about Iraq and that no one else - Including President Bush, former UNSCOM...

Anti-war campaign continues for Ritter Former weapons inspector, mired in scandal, crusades against attacking IraqBy ALAN WECHSLER, Staff writerFirst published: Saturday, February 1, 2003 SAUGERTIES -- Despite the widespread publicity of his sex-charge arrest, former U.N. arms inspector Scott Ritter drew a standing-room-only crowd eager to hear his views of the impending war with Iraq on Friday night. The Delmar resident, 41, talked for 45 minutes and answered questions for almost another hour, but he did not discuss his brush with the law in 2001. At the time, he was arrested in Colonie and charged with trying to rendezvous...

The Great Right-Wing Conspiracy Scott Ritter, who quit being a UN weapons inspector in 1998, to become a selfless wager of peace, finds himself besieged by accusations from "The Great Right Wing Conspiracy" because he was arrested twice during a police sex sting operation in New York, designed to capture internet users who solicited underage girls. In the first "run-in," in April 2001, instead of meeting the 14 year old girl he met on the internet at their agreed upon rendezvous, the New York undercover police who greeted Mr. Ritter were unwilling to allow Mr. Ritter to proceed with his...

Key facts 'omitted by Blix' LISBON: Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter yesterday accused Hans Blix, the chief of the UN weapons inspection teams in Iraq, of leaving out key facts in his briefing to the UN Security Council in order to bolster the case for a war with Baghdad. "The report was probably the best favour he could have done to the Bush administration in order to facilitate a military strike against Iraq," he said in an interview with private radio TSF. In a strongly worded status report submitted to the Security Council on Monday, Blix said his...

Ritter: On the Anti-War PathBy Julia GorinFrontPageMagazine.com | January 29, 2003 It's funny how soliciting sex from an underage girl can be the difference between Iraq having nuclear capability and not having nuclear capability.Just ask former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. In 1997, before Ritter was arrested for soliciting sex from a police officer posing as a teenager, Saddam Hussein indeed had been furtively building a nuclear arsenal, according to Ritter. But in 2002, a year after Ritter acquired a dirty little secret of his own, Hussein suddenly became beyond suspicion.Ritter has said that the timing "stinks," and lamented that...

 

Trustees of Schenectady County Community College today will discuss whether or not to go ahead and allow Scott Ritter to speak Feb. 12 at the college, according to college President Gabriel Basil."It's one item on a long agenda. The board will consider whether Ritter's appearance is something that will have a detrimental effect on the college. At this time, we don't see it has having the effect," Basil said.

A Schenectady County lawmaker is trying to pull the plug on a speaking engagement for Scott Ritter. It comes after word leaked Ritter was busted in a police internet sex sting in 2001. The former UN Weapons Inspector was accused of having an online sexual conversation with a 15-year old girl. Next month Ritter is set to be paid $4,000 to speak about Iraq at Schenectady County Community College. County Legislator Susan Savage wants the college to cancel that appearance.

ALBANY - Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, snared two years ago in an Internet sex sting, now may face a federal probe in the case. Acting on a request from local federal prosecutors, state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi has directed that sealed Ritter case files be turned over to the feds, officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Ritter questions federal action Ex-arms inspector is critical of the timing of ruling to unseal 2001 arrest records Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Saturday questioned the decision by federal investigators to reopen sealed files in a two-year old case involving charges he allegedly tried to use Internet to lure an underage girl to a sexual encounter. "I wish that everyone would understand how much the timing of this whole thing just stinks," Ritter said Saturday from his Delmar home. Ritter declined to comment further. Ritter, who resigned his position as chief weapons inspector in 1998, has...

LONDON: The BBC is courting controversy with its new digital television channel, which will screen a cartoon featuring a paedophile. A character called Chat Room Perv will appear on BBC3's new satirical show Monkey Dust, raising eyebrows at a time when internet paedophilia is making headlines. The new show's character regularly surfs the internet in search of young victims before luring them to meet him. A BBC spokeswoman said the show was intended to be a "darkly satirical" look at real life. "Monkey Dust is trying to get over that the internet is not policed and that children can get...

Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter has broken his silence about his 2001 arrest in an internet sex sting, giving his only local on-camera interview to Channel Six News. Watch Darcy Wells' interview with Ritter by clicking here.Quick Time 6 required.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities have obtained the sealed records in the alleged Internet sex sting of former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter to review for possible federal charges. State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi signed an order Thursday requiring police and Albany County prosecutors to provide records and any evidence to the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office. Federal authorities filed a motion earlier in the week to obtain the records to determine whether federal laws were violated, the Daily Gazette of Schenectady and the Times Union of Albany reported in Saturday editions. Assistant U.S. Attorney William...

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READERS of the New York Times, as of yesterday, still hadn't been informed of Scott Ritter's sex-sting arrest. Ritter is the former UN arms inspector who has lately been defending Saddam Hussein to become a darling of the anti-war movement. The news of his arrest nearly two years ago - allegedly for trying to lure a 16-year-old girl he contacted on the Internet for sex - broke a week ago in the Schenectady Gazette. The Post and many other newspapers carried the story after the Associated Press had it on Tuesday. But not a word in the Times. When The...

Police say they caught him trying to meet young girls over the internet...but former U.N. Weapons inspector Scott Ritter never spent a day in jail. Legal experts say that's unusual...most others accused of similar crimes meet a much different fate.   Jeffrey Johnson serving 7 years in prison...nabbed by police in 1997 for trying to hook up with a 12-year old girl he met on the Internet. Robert Rodriguez facing up to 15 years behind bars...for a similar crime involving a 14 year old. Former U.N. Weapons inspector Scott Ritter caught in 2001 for allegedly trying to meet a...

Ritter Speaks Out Against Sex Charges (updated: January 23rd, 6:30pm) Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says he will not let a two-year old internet sex arrest stop him from speaking out on Iraq. And that is what he plans to do when he speaks at Schenectady Community College next month. The story broke about the sex sting back in June of 2001. He was arrested, allegedly for having an online sexual conversation with what he thought was an underage girl. It was really an undercover cop. But the case was later sealed, and the Assistant DA in charge of...

In my drinking circles when the question of Scott Ritter came up it was never in the context of "Why did he change his mind?" but always, "What do the Iraqis have on him?" Of course, we are all national-security community folks in one way or another, and pretty much look at life through the realist lens. We might come across as cynical, especially after a few rounds, but more often than not we get things right. When allegations of Ritter's planned sexual encounters with under-aged girls surfaced this week, the collective response was a professionally objective, "Oh, so that...