Ritter lashes out at U.S (at the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Centre, affiliate of the Arab League)

gulfnews ^ | 2/9/2003 | Nadim Kawach

[Wolverine]

Scott Ritter, well known appeaser has gone over to the enemy side.

[Always Right]

What's worse, being a traitor or a pedophile????

[TLBSHOW]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities have obtained the sealed records in the alleged Internet sex sting of former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter to review for possible federal charges.

State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi signed an order Thursday requiring police and Albany County prosecutors to provide records and any evidence to the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office.

Federal authorities filed a motion earlier in the week to obtain the records to determine whether federal laws were violated, the Daily Gazette of Schenectady and the Times Union of Albany reported in Saturday editions.

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Ritter, 41, a critic of the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq, acknowledged his June 2001 arrest this week in national television appearances but said he was prohibited from discussing details because the charges had been dismissed and the records sealed.

Ritter has suggested recent news reports about the arrest were an attempt to silence him. He said the publicity has forced him to cancel a recent trip to Baghdad, where he said he would have offered an alternative to military action.

Broadcast reports when he was arrested and recent newspaper reports have indicated Ritter was caught in an Internet sex sting, something he did not admit.

At the time of the arrest, NBC station WNYT-TV of Albany reported that William Scott Ritter Jr. -- Ritter's full name -- was charged with trying to lure an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl to a restaurant.

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He was charged with attempted endangerment of a child, a misdemeanor that carries up to 90 days in jail, reports said. The case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning that if he stayed out of trouble for six months, the charges would disappear and the file would be sealed.

[TLBSHOW]

Ex-UN aide may face federal sex rap

However, sources familiar with the case said the feds still could prosecute Ritter under federal law for allegedly trying to lure a minor into sexual activity.

Ritter has confirmed the arrest

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/54725p-51227c.html

[Bonaparte]

"...has gone over to the enemy side."

If the feds put a warrant on him, he'll take refuge with his terrorist friends in Al Quaeda -- or accept France's invitation to move into Einhorn's old cottage and live there as a "political refugee." He'll have all the 14-year-olds he wants. They even have Burger Kings over there.

[Bonaparte]

"But the 1991 Cease Fire agreement..."

Exactly. We are still at war with Iraq. Ritter is a traitorous propagandist, nothing more.

[sd-joe]

What's worse, being a traitor or a pedophile????

Being a traitorous pedophile.

[sd-joe]

Exactly. We are still at war with Iraq. Ritter is a traitorous propagandist, nothing more

Can't we arrest the b*stard and try him as a traitor. Or better yet arrest him as a pedophile.

[Bonaparte]

Don't know, but I'd love to see either one happen. Roman Polanski could bring Ritter his whoppers with fries while Sarandon leads a candlelight vigil outside the prison gates for her favorite "prisoner of conscience."

[TLBSHOW]

Using the Internet to lure children for sexual encounters would be a felony punishable with up to seven years in prison under a proposal by Assembly Republicans.


The Assembly minority introduced a similar law last year that would make it a felony for anyone to "lure or entice" a minor under age 17 into a car, building or other isolated place for the purpose of committing a sexual offense.


GOP lawmakers said the addition of "computer luring" was spurred by the recent revelation that former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter was arrested in 2001 in Colonie for allegedly trying to rendezvous with a person he thought was a teenage girl he met in an online chat room but who was actually an undercover detective. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/841552/posts?page=