Another Wag the Dog, maybe to take the pressure off of AlGore's
declining poll numbers? --MS]
WorldNetDaily:
US seeking arms clash with Iraq, says ex-inspector
By Kim Sengupta
28 June 2000
The new UN commission for arms inspection in Iraq is likely to be
used to trigger a confrontation with President Saddam Hussein in
the run-up to the American presidential elections in November, a
former UN inspector claimed yesterday.
Scott Ritter said it was commonly recognised in Washington and
New York that the new mission has no realistic chance of being
allowed into Iraq while sanctions and air strikes by American and
Britain continues. This, he maintained, would be used by
Washington as an example of non-compliance to the UN, leading the
way to an escalation of bombing, without the Security Council
being asked to vote on the matter.
The former US Marine intelligence colonel left his post with
Unscom in August 1998, after complaining that information
covertly gathered by the UN was turned over to the US by the
team's chief,Richard Butler, and used in the bombing campaign
Operation Desert Fox.
In an interview with The Independent Mr Ritter, who was in London
to address the inaugural meeting of the Great Britain Iraq
Society, said: "The new commission, Unmovic, will not be allowed
into Iraq in August, three months away from the election. You
have got a Vice-President, Al Gore, trailing behind in the polls
and what better way to appear tough and switch attention away to
a so-called foreign threat. The UN Security Council did not vote
on Desert Fox and we can expect the same thing to happen again.
The US would not like to take unilateral action, it needs Britain
to give it in appearance of something multilateral. And sadly,
when the US says jump, Tony Blair asks 'how high?' "The ironic
thing is that the longer the inspectors stay away from Iraq, the
more time the hardliners there have to rebuild their weaponry.
The intelligence services of the US, Britain and Israel realise,
but there is nothing they can do while the US Administration
wants to keep Iraq as the whipping boy they can wheel out at
times of domestic difficulties.
"Both Republicans and Democrats accept the current policy on Iraq
is a mess. But it seems little will be done this side of the
election."
Mr Ritter says his strident criticism has led to the US
government launching a FBI investigation into allegations that he
had supplied intelligence to the Israelis. He said: "That
started in 1996 and is still going on. It has cost me $120,000
in legal fees so far.
"After endless requests the FBI finally agreed to meet me last
month. I am not demeaning their investigation, it is a very
serious issue, but I have nothing to hide."
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