An Iraqi-American businessman under investigation in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal was placed on an honor roll of former regime thugs by Saddam Hussein’s demonic son Uday just months before the war, The Post has learned.
Detroit-area real-estate developer Shakir al-Khafaji, who received millions of dollars worth of vouchers to buy discount Iraqi crude in the U.N. oil-for-food program, appeared on an “Honor List” of Iraqis considered most valuable to Saddam that was published by the Uday Hussein’s newspaper, Babil, in November 2002.
The article, which names Khafaji as a “political activist for the regime,” has deepened suspicions among federal prosecutors and congressional investigators that he was a second secret agent operating inside the United States to weaken U.N. sanctions and undermine U.S. foreign policy.
Anyone remember Scott Ritter? He is the former U.N. weapons inspector who spent much of his time speaking out against the US and anyone who wanted to go into Iraq as well as against sanctions.
Scott Ritter admitted that he had accepted $400,000 in funding from an Iraqi-American businessman named Shakir al-Khafaji. Ritter used the money to visit Baghdad and film a documentary purporting to tell the true story of the weapons inspections (which in his telling were corrupted by sinister American manipulation). He also kept over forty thousand for himself – - I guess that’s the price for integrity.
Tangled webs.
Thank-you Reilly! I told everyone that SOB Ritter was getting paid. IIRC- it was that dastardly Mathias that said it was a lie. And Ritter did admit to being approached 2 years ago, but claimed he did not accept money. That was on Donahue when he still had a show.
Is Ritter American… If so, we should charge him wit treason, and give him what traitors deserve.:evil:
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Say what you will about Ritter, and he may have done the wrong (and perhaps a criminal) thing. He was, however, the only analyst who was right about WMD in Iraq.
Will you eat crow, Sandy, if WMD’s show up?
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I will now. But before the war I thought (having no original info on which to base my opinion) that Saddam definelty had a chemical weapons arsenal, and probably some biological ones, though no nuclear weapons. My opposition to the war in 2002-03 was based in thinking that there were at least some WMD there, though the threat was nowhere near the threat paraded by the President. The issue was, and always was, WMD and Iraq’s threat to the US.
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Ritter is an American.
They had WMD’s, as we have discussed before. They did not comply with the usless UN inspections. They violated everything placed on them in the cease fire.
Saddam, his sons, and his henchmen deserved what they got.
The people of Iraq, deserved the right of self rule they got also.
BTW, how ya doin?
In don’t understand how you say Iraq had WMD without qualification. They certainly did up until 1995, as Pollack and others have written about. And you’re right about evasion of inspectors – noone, by the way, was a bigger critic of the lack of power of the UN inspections than Ritter.
I’m doing well, thanks. You moved up north yet?:smile:
No, I skipped out on the FT Greeley assignment… Too freakin cold! I think that I will remain in the south for some time, unless I go overseas, or Iraq. I would love to visit Canada and Alaska though.
So what’s new? this guy is a fool but with this war we all don’t know who is doing who and why.