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Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Seymour Hersh (Foreword) "The long convoy of white Nissan Patrol vehicles snaked its way along the Baghdad thoroughfare towards the Iraqi Ministry of Defense..." (more)
Key Phrases: concealment paper, chicken farm documents, concealment mechanism, Security Council, New York, Special Security Organization (more...)

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'Ritter tells us how the US and all its agencies made sure that the UN inspection team was undermined or diverted whenever it came close to declaring Iraq disarmed, which it often did.' Tim Llewellyn, Sunday Tribune 'Ritter has attempted to piece together the wider context in which he was operating' Con Coughlin, Sunday Telegraph 'From 1991 onwards, Saddam was a principal target for the Americans. No one was better placed than Scott Ritter to note their determination to oust Saddam.' - Tribune DAILY MAIL 'Scott Ritter was a Marine officer of immense integrity. In his remarkable book he relates how the CIA and the State Department used the inspectors to undermine Saddam.' MIDDLE EAST 'Ritter shows us a world of deceit and betrayal, in which nothing is as it seem.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Scott Ritter is the straight-talking former marine officer who the CIA wants to silence. After the 1991 Gulf War, Ritter helped lead the UN weapons inspections of Iraq and found himself at the center of a dangerous game between the Iraqi and US regimes.

As Ritter reveals in this explosive book, Washington was only interested in disarmament as a tool for its own agenda. Operating in a fog of espionage and counter-espionage, Ritter and his team were determined to find out the truth about Iraq’s WMD. The CIA were equally determined to stop them. The truth, as we now know, was that Iraq was playing a deadly game of double-bluff, and actually had no WMD. But to have revealed this would have derailed America’s drive for regime change.

Iraq Confidential charts the disillusionment of a staunch patriot who came to realize that his own government sought to undermine effective arms control in the Middle East. Ritter shows us a world of deceit and betrayal in which nothing is as it seems. A host of characters from Mossad, MI6 and the CIA pepper this powerful narrative, which contains revelations that will permanently affect the ongoing debates about Iraq.

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Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Nation Books; First Edition edition (October 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560258527
ISBN-13: 978-1560258520
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)

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concealment paper, chicken farm documents, concealment mechanism, concealment investigation, camera monitoring system, inspection modalities, disarmament mandate, disarmament mission, concealment activities, concealment activity, past concealment, inspection concept, upcoming inspection, photographic interpreter, proscribed material, unilateral destruction, proscribed weapons, communications interception, imagery analysts, mass destruction programs, intercept operators, security organization, executive chairman, missile components, seized material

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Security Council, New York, Special Security Organization, Special Republican Guard, Tariq Aziz, Amer Rashid, Saddam Hussein, Hussein Kamal, Charles Duelfer, Richard Butler, Hossam Amin, State Department, Nikita Smidovich, United Nations, White House, Ministry of Defense, Moe Dobbs, General Amer, United States, Sarah Parsons, Tel Aviv, Delta Force, John Bird, Ministry of Agriculture, Moshe Ponkovsky

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Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn in Back Matter
Ministry of Defence: Prices Paid for Spare Parts: [Hc]: [1992-93]: House of Commons Papers: [1992-93] by Great Britain on page 198
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inside Testimony from A Hero for Our Times, October 22, 2005

By	cvairag (Allan Hancock College) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Scott Ritter is a stand-up guy - of the highest order. Not only has he seen the entire tragedy of Iraq from the inception of Gulf War I through the brutal decade of sanctions, to the unfortunate denouement of U.S. policy in the current war, from unique vantage points first as military attache to Schwartzkopf in Gulf War I, later as U.N. Weapons Inspector in Iraq. Mr. Ritter's book provides direct, 'ground-zero' witness to the material facts surrounding the build-up to the war as no other can - his is the one testimony which is unbiased by the ideological slant, special interests, or simply hampered by armchair distance that almost all other accounts are. Thus, the book is required reading for those who want the most accurate and detailed inside account of the most important single issue of the war: the justification for our invasion.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ritter inspires confidence, October 30, 2005

By	Larry G. Mcclung (Irving, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

At a time of conflicting arguments concerning the disaster in Iraq, Scott Ritter is among the most credible voices around. A Marine intelligence officer during the 1991 Gulf War, who calls himself a conservative Republican, Ritter voted for George Bush in 2000, in large part because of the Clinton administration's attempts to infiltrate his UN Weapons Inspection team with CIA agents in an attempt to find a way to assassinate Saddam Hussein. When the candidate Bush who renounced the goal of "regime change" morphed into the president Bush who lied and deceived the country into a war of aggression, Ritter became an outspoken critic. His analysis of the Bush regime's motives and the chaos of its war policies is incisive and very persuasive. Every citizen should read this book as well as Ritter's earlier books.

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4.0 out of 5 stars the real smoking gun (no mushroom cloud), December 10, 2005

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Throughout the 1990s we were told Iraq wasn't complying with UN resolutions -- they arrogantly flaunted the inspections regime (UNSCOM) formed to prove compliance. This book, by a US Marine officer and weapons inspector with wide experience in Iraq, destroys many of those claims.

Ritter's account indicts three American Administrations and the CIA. They did everything possible to ensure UN resolutions wouldn't work (while claiming the opposite). `Regime change' (unsanctioned by UN resolutions and international law) was the only acceptable outcome.

Iraqis charged UNSCOM fronted CIA covert operations dedicated to compromise their sovereignty. Turns out they were probably right. The CIA (without notice) used UNSCOM for covert ops. The only problem - the CIA had no real expertise (they were unable to accomplish anything -- least of all regime change with unreliable paid expatriate Iraqis in the mid 90s).

Ritter's most disturbing charge is the politicization of intelligence. CIA information was routinely produced to justify positions supporting previously determined administration goals. Little wonder the CIA was blind on 9/11, the Downing Street Memo, or the absence of Iraqi WMD post invasion.

The trashing of the UN was the perfect touch. We needed to preserve the agenda of a few political `scientists' and conceal their mistakes (incompetence). Why not blame it on the UN?

This work is well worth reading. You decide.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A rehash of "Endgame", but a fascinating read - buy it!
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