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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Unscom to create regime change in Iraq in 1996?

This is from Scott Ritter in the Guardian, ex-head of the Unscom inspection team in Iraq under Clinton. He has since gone rogue as one of the loudest critics of the Iraq invasion. There were reports that child porn was found on his computer(about the same time as the Wilson/Plame affair), he stopped criticizing the Bush admin, and the charges weren't pursued. Not that I'm alleging that the intelligence services would do such a thing.......

Anyhow, this is a very interesting look at one of the pre-Bush plans to overthrow Saddam by using Unscom inspectors to create an "incident" to start the ball rolling. If you want a look at how such things operate, this is an interesting inside view.

And, by the way, Saddam was right. This confirms that the US was using Unscom to spy in contravention of the UN mandate for weapons inspections.

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