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To: E who wrote (119723)	11/16/2003 5:25:38 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Is the implication that you suspect the IED article in the CSM is a fiction? A fantasy? (Do say yes, I'll try to find it reassuring for the time being.) Might be, might not be.. I don't know how anything Mr. Ritter CURRENTLY has to say can be considered credible. He considers himself a celebrity now. He has no security clearance (which he had in 1998).. He's been discovered to be a sex offender (luring 16 year girls over the internet). And he's lost credibility by taking Iraqi money to make his "documentary".. But his testimoney in 1998? That's a different situation since I believe he was partly do it as a means of helping Richard Butler evade some of the pressures he was facing. Butler couldn't publicly speak out about the inspections being rigged for failure, but Ritter (playing the martyr) could. But instead of thinking he'd be protected as a whistleblower, everyone ganged up on him.. Including Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright.. After that, I think Mr. Ritter was just in it for himself... So maybe he saw IEDs and maybe he didn't. But it's not particularly difficult to make them. And our Force Protection and MI folks should already have a ready solution for them (such a pre-emptive radio signalling to detonate them). Hawk