The Wire

Not many have had access to information regarding weapons of mass destruction and high level intelligence of the US government. Even less people who do would go public about what they knew. Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer, who served as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq for seven years after the first Gulf War. After resigning in 1998, he says disarmament is used by the US as a tool for regime change. In the lead up to the 2nd Gulf War, Ritter openly questioned whether Iraq had any weapons of mass destruction. His new book ” Iraq Confidential”, reveals how the CIA ‘manipulated and sabotaged’ the work of UN to achieve a foreign policy objctive in the Middle East. Alma Mistry spoke to Scott Ritter and first asked him to describe why he resigned from the UN in 1998.