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'Sarin Bomb!' v The Dud Heard Round the World by Scott Ritter from the May 21, 2004 edition Iraq sarin shell is not part of a secret cache By Scott Ritter DELMAR, N.Y. v In the mid-1980s I served as the intelligence officer for a Marine artillery battalion. Stationed in Twentynine Palms, Calif., I would often find myself deployed in the field, on exercises where thousands of live artillery rounds were fired downrange. In keeping with the Marine artillery motto of "shoot, move, communicate," we were always moving from one firing location to another to simulate modern war. This mobility...

    Ritter speech questioned Schenectady-- But college's trustees don't act to stop appearance By MIKE GOODWIN, Staff writerFirst published: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 The Schenectady Community College Board of Trustees questioned whether to allow former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter -- embroiled in controversy over his June 2001 arrest in an Internet sex sting -- to speak to students, but took no action Monday to block the speech. The college signed a contract with Ritter last fall, agreeing to pay him $4,000 from a special student-faculty fund to speak about a possible war with Iraq. Ritter has been an...

Reports from newspapers and television stations in Albany, N.Y., now indicate that outspoken former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter allegedly sought to meet underage girls twice in a three-month period in 2001. Scott Ritter mug shot (courtesy WNYT-TV) The Schenectady Daily Gazette and New York Daily News originally reported Ritter allegedly had an online sexual discussion with someone he thought was an underage girl. The "girl," however, turned out to be an undercover police investigator, according to the Daily News, whose sources spoke on condition of anonymity. WTEN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Albany, is reporting that Ritter contacted the "teen-age...