“I had three assassination attempts on my life so I know what [Saddam’s] capable of. And I have inspected the documents of [the directorate] for political assassinations. I’ve been to the children’s prison at Amn El-Ammn headquarters in downtown Baghdad. It was horrific; these are kids in jail under horrible conditions, sweltering because of the political crimes of their parents. Dad speaks out against Saddam, Mom goes to the women’s prison; the kids go to the children’s prison. And do you know what they do to those kids? I don’t even want to get to that. “—— Scott Ritter, Salon interview
He also mentioned it in a Time interview in 2002.
(Note that Scott decided not to report “the gruesome details” of what he saw in the children’s prisons [in 1998] because he was afraid it would “be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I’m waging peace.”)
...which was very convenient for Bill Clinton...who was content to pass the tarbaby to the next president.