Endgame : Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All

by RITTER W

• ISBN13: 9780684864853
• ISBN10: 0684864851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Scott Ritter--the U.N. weapons inspector whose resignation in August prompted an international outcry--proposes a dramatic solution to the ongoing crisis in Iraq: bomb Baghdad and overthrow Saddam Hussein. Index.

Author Biography

Scott Ritter was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1984 and served for eight years as an intelligence officer, reaching the rank of major. He served as an arms control inspector in the former Soviet Union and on the staff of General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War before taking his position with UNSCOM. Ritter currently resides with his family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	13	(2)
Prologue: UNSCOM 255	15	(16)
A Journey of Discovery	31	(10)
The Road to Auja	41	(12)
``He Who Confronts''	53	(14)
School for Weapons of Mass Destruction	67	(15)
``Dr. Germ'' and ``The Chemist'' --- A Family Business	82	(12)
The Two-Day War	94	(10)
Burying Treasure	104	(9)
The Year of the Gun	113	(5)
Fortress Saddam and the Concealment Mechanism	118	(13)
The Ghost in the Machine	131	(16)
The Lean, Mean Politics of Sanctions	147	(10)
What's in the Briefcase: The Anatomy of an Inspection	157	(19)
Black-Umbrella Days	176	(14)
The End of Unscom As We Know It	190	(9)
Trumping Saddam	199	(18)
Appendix: Iraq's Arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction	217	(8)
Note on Sources	225	(2)
Index	227