Top Arms Inspector Chastises Expert

Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector for Iraq, has chastised U.S. arms expert Scott Ritter for making public confidential information about Iraq’s weapons capabilities. Butler wrote a letter to the former U.S. Marine telling him to stop revealing confidential information in violation of his contract with the United Nations. Since he resigned from the weapons inspection team Aug. 26, Ritter has spoken out several times on Iraq’s weapons programs and on what he said was the failure of the United States and Britain to back up their stated claims of wanting to disarm Baghdad.