Conference

I went to a conference last night, like I posted before, but Robert Fisk was unable to attend. Instead, they got Scott Ritter to speak for an hour, then another hour of questions.

Scott Ritter joined the UN as a member of the weapons inspection team (UNSCOM) in 1991, taking part in over 50 inspections missions including 14 as chief. Ritter set up and ran the intelligence unit for UNSCOM in 1991, and served as the chief liaison between the weapons inspectors and international intelligence agencies on issues pertaining to Iraq's disarmament until his resignation from the inspection team in 1998

WMD

Fisk doesn't seem to think that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. He was one of the chief inspectors and says that 90-95% of Iraq's weapons have been found, and that the other 5-10% presumed to exist have probably gotten too old to be of any use, particularly 250,000 litres of anthrax in liquid form. He says it only has a 3-year shelf life in the best of conditions and that it has long been useless.