re: #165 sattv4u2

I don’t think so, although it may have been. Something in the back of my head is making a Ritter/ Iraq/ $100,000 connection

According to the Washington Times, Ritter’s 2000 documentary In Shifting Sands was partially financed by Iraqi American businessman Shakir al Khafaji.[28] Al-Khafaji pled guilty to multiple felony charges in 2004 for his relationship with U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal.[29] Christopher Hitchens notes that there was no direct transfer of money and “one cannot accuse Scott Ritter […] of being in Iraqi pay.”[30] Ritter denies any quid pro quo with Al-Khafaji, according to Laurie Mylroie, writing in the Financial Times. When Ritter was asked “how he would characterize anyone suggesting that Mr Khafaji was offering allocations in his name, Mr Ritter replied: “I’d say that person’s a fucking liar…and tell him to come over here so I can kick his ass.”[31]

That’s from Wiki