Scott Ritter to speak at CalTech on Wednesday, 11/13/02
Official press release from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA:
Former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq to Speak
PASADENA, Calif.- Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, will be the first speaker in the 2002-03 Social Activism Speaker Series at the California Institute of Technology. The presentation, "Understanding the Roots of Terrorism: Iraq as Case Study," will take place on Wednesday, November 13, at 8 p.m. in Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech campus. The event is free and open to the public.
In 1998, Ritter resigned his post as chief weapons inspector for the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq, due to a conflict regarding the goals of the UNSCOM mission. A vocal critic of the Bush administration's current policy on Iraq, he believes the UN inspectors destroyed 90 to 95 percent of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the seven years they spent there. He also argues that it would be impossible for Iraq to have built, without detection, new weapons in the four years since the inspectors left.
I am going to do my best to attend this, and if you're in the Los Angeles/Santa Monica area and want to go, I'm willing to carpool there as the driver. I can carry up to four other adults (dependent on size, naturally). Email me at zhade_in_la@yahoo.com to discuss ride-sharing if you're interested.