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To: geode00 who wrote (191429)	7/11/2006 8:28:47 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Lady... I personally saw the documents involving Ritter in the oil scandal while I was in Iraq. The legal authorities have possession of them now. It's up to them to pursue the charges. As for the sex scandal, the Assistant District Attorney of Schenectady was fired because she failed to notify her boss that the case had been brought forward, not formally tried, Ritter given "diversion", and then the records sealed (highly unusual in such cases and REEKED of a cover-up). nydailynews.com ALBANY - Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was secretly prosecuted in Albany County in 2001 after he was snared in an Internet sex sting operation, law enforcement sources told the Daily News. Ritter, who lives in the Albany suburb of Delmar, is now a high-profile critic of President Bush's war preparations. He was arrested by Colonie Police in June 2001 on a misdemeanor charge after he allegedly had a sexual discussion on the Internet with an undercover investigator he thought was an underage girl, law enforcement sources disclosed on condition of anonymity. The case was sealed, and Colonie officials declined to release the arrest records, explaining the matter was adjourned in local court in contemplation of dismissal. ........ The case was apparently kept so secret, the head local prosecutor did not even know it existed. The Daily Gazette reports Albany District Attorney Paul Clyne fired veteran Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser last week when he finally learned of the matter. "I was shocked and angered to learn that the case had been disposed of by one of my assistant district attorneys without consulting me," Clyne told the paper. "Any arguably sensitive case should be brought to my attention." worldnetdaily.com ........ Sources tell the Albany Times-Union that Ritter actually had two run-ins with police. The first occurred in April 2001, as the former Marine reportedly drove to a Colonie business to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl. He was reportedly questioned by officers, and released without a charge. The news director said the 16-year-old girl had been lured by Ritter to meet him at the Burger King in Menands, N.Y., in order "to have her watch him have sex with himself." worldnetdaily.com Now about Ritter's acceptance of $400,000 in money to make his movie, "In Shifting Sands" from an Iraqi-American later tied to the oil for food scandal: Iraq's intelligence services bought gold jewellery that they planned to give to the wife and daughter of Scott Ritter, the controversial former weapons inspector, as part of a clandestine project to encourage him to work closely with Saddam Hussein's regime, according to documents discovered by The Telegraph in Baghdad. According to the documents, which were found in the bombed headquarters of Iraq's intelligence services, the cost of the presents was approved at the highest level in an attempt to develop "strong relations with them [Mr Ritter's family] that affect positively on our relations with him". The documents say that the gifts should be offered via an intermediary, who was named as Shakir al-Khafaji, an Iraqi-American businessman and close associate of Mr Ritter And as for the Tariq Azziz connnection, HE APPROVED THE MONEY!!! The correspondence discussed further ways to come up with money to offer to Mr al-Khafaji to cover his travel costs. One letter requests approval to make funds available by siphoning profits from an oil deal, apparently controlled by Iraqi intelligence. The documents state that the matter would be passed on to Tariq Aziz, then Iraq's vice-president, to deal with. telegraph.co.uk And who is Shakir al-Khafaji?? en.wikipedia.org Al Khafaji admitted to the Financial Times to selling oil he received from Hussein's government to Italtech, an Italian company which then sold the oil to Bayoil, a Houston company. The newspaper estimated he made around $1.1m from the oil for food programme. Now Ritter has tried to claim that he refused those gifts (can he prove that he didn't take them?) but he didn't refuse the $400,000 from Al Khafaji, who obtained his allocations with the approval of Tariq Azziz and Saddam Hussein. Oil allocation had to be approved by either Azziz or Saddam PERSONALLY, because their ENTIRE INTENT was to be used as influence peddling and buying support for their regime, all under the cover of the UN. And can any sane person assert that Ritter's 180 degree change of course with regard to Iraq's WMD programs was not motivated by the promise of Iraqi money?? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you, ONCE MORE, provided me the opportunity to show you up as the UTTER AND CONTEMPTIBLE MORON that you are. One would think you'd learn by now not to challenge me to back up my words with facts and documentation. Even a little basic internet research would have discovered Ritter's involvement in the sex scandal and saved you the embarrassment. Hawk