Talk:United Nations Special Commission

message: Is it me or does this article have a little too much information in regards to Scott Ritter? I am going to write it over and talk about events that actually happened to UNSCOM in general, not just Ritter. Perhaps some of this should be melded into his article. Will post a link when its done, 2-3 days. --zero faults |sockpuppets| 20:58, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be a good idea for this article not to be a coatrack article: see Wikipedia:Coatrack. —Lowellian (reply) 04:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much information on Scott Ritter?

message: Anyone know the reason for the copy editing tag?  There are some British English spellings and idioms, but I don't see anything blatantly wrong.  Warren Dew 03:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It did need copyediting -- lots of run-on sentences and verb tense disagreements, not to mention a lack of continuity. Done. --fraise (talk) 19:07, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy-editing tag?

message: Have begun to go into the official UN transcripts over this.  If the links don't work, you have to find the PDF files through the un.org website.  I would recommend pulling much of the material about UNSCOM off of the Desert Fox page and keeping these incidents separately documented.  AFAIK, UNSCOM was superceded by UNMOVIC when there was no chance it was going to return.  There are obvious questions about the bombing which I has so far been unable to find asked in official sources.  The BBC listed the set of goals and some of the bombing maps.  Question is: what things were being bombed that couldn't be inspected?  The official justification for what happened doesn't wash, and the theory that Desert Fox was a decapitation strike (like the early strikes of the 2003 invasion) is very compelling.  Scott Ritter is not the only person making these allegations.Goatchurch 20:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: UN transcripts

message: UNSCOM ended in 1999, so either the entire section about the 2000s should be merged into UNMOVIC, or both articles should be merged together. —Lowellian (reply) 04:38, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Information in wrong article

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message: I'm deleting the following unsourced claim, because it contradicts statements Ritter has made repeatedly since 1999:  
:On 31 August 1998, Ritter said: "Iraq still has proscribed weapons capability. There needs to be a careful distinction here. Iraq today is challenging the special commission to come up with a weapon and say where is the weapon in Iraq, and yet part of their efforts to conceal their capabilities, I believe, have been to disassemble weapons into various components and to hide these components throughout Iraq. I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measure the months, reconstitute chemical biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program."
If someone can find a credible source for this statement, I trust they will put it back into the article, presumably at the start of the current section on "Ritter on Iraq's WMDs after 1998".  NOTE:  I added that section heading, because that remark did not seem to belong under the section on "Allegations of CIA infiltration of UNSCOM".  DavidMCEddy (talk) 00:05, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced claims that Scott Ritter said in 1998 that "Iraq still has proscribed weaopns"