When the United States and the UN Security Council failed to take action against Iraq for their ongoing failure to cooperate fully with inspectors (a breach of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1154), Ritter resigned from the United Nations Special Commission on August 26, 1998. I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their developing of nuclear weapons. Ritter spoke on the Public Broadcasting Service show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: UN Weapons Inspectors were thereafter denied access to Iraq. UN Inspectors were ordered out of Iraq by the United States Government, shortly before Operation Desert Fox attacks began in December 1998, using information which had been gathered for the purpose of disarmament to identify targets which would reduce Iraq's ability to wage both conventional and possibly unconventional warfare. In January 1998, Ritter's inspection team in Iraq was blocked from some weapons sites by Iraqi officials who stated that information obtained from these sites would be used for future planning of attacks. This is an operation-Operation Mass Appeal, that had been going on prior to UNSCOM being asked to be the source of particular data, and it's an operation that continued after my resignation.' There was a detailed planning meeting in June of 1998, and I resigned in August of 1998. The first reports were passed to the British sometime in February of 1998. He said that he supported this, and we initiated a cooperation that was very short-lived. 'I went to Richard Butler with the request from the British. Operation Mass Appeal Д«eginning in December 1997, Ritter, with the approval of UNSCOM head Richard Butler and other top UNSCOM leaders, began to supply the UK's foreign intelligence service MI6 with documents and briefings on UNSCOM's findings to be used for MI6's propaganda effort dubbed ' Operation Mass Appeal': 'I was approached by the British intelligence service, which I had, again, a long relationship with, of an official nature, to see if there was any information in the archives of UNSCOM that could be handed to the British, so that they could in turn work it over, determine its veracity, and then seek to plant it in media outlets around the world, in an effort to try to shape the public opinion of those countries, and then indirectly, through, for instance, a report showing up in the Polish press, shape public opinion in Great Britain and the United States. Iraq protested about the supply of such information to Israel. U-2 having been loaned to UNSCOM, but caused Ritter to be subjected to criticism and investigation by U.S. Ritter was amongst a group of UNSCOM weapons inspectors that regularly took Lockheed U-2 imagery to Israel for analysis, as UNSCOM was not getting sufficient analysis assistance from the U.S. He was chief inspector in fourteen of the more than thirty inspection missions in which he participated. Ritter 'ran intelligence operations for the United Nations' from 1991 to 1998 as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), which was charged with finding and destroying all weapons of mass destruction and WMD-related manufacturing capabilities in Iraq. Ritter also had 'a long relationship of an official nature' with the UK's foreign intelligence spy agency MI6 according to an interview he gave to Democracy Now! in 2003. Ritter later worked as a security and military consultant for the Fox News network. During Desert Storm, he served as a ballistic missile advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf. Ritter's academic work focused on the Basmachi resistance movement in Soviet Central Asia during the 1920s and 1930s, and on the Basmachi commanders Fazail Maksum and Ibrahim Bek. He served as the lead analyst for the Marine Corps Rapid Deployment Force concerning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the IranвЂ“Iraq War. He served in this capacity for about 12 years. Then in May 1984 he was commissioned as an intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps.

He graduated from Kaiserslautern American High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1979, and later from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Arts in the history of the Soviet Union and departmental honors. Ritter was born into a military family in 1961 in Gainesville, Florida. 3.2 Commentary in the post-inspection period.

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