Talk:Operation Rockingham

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This is from another section of Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

The section where he is called "the Chief Inspector" makes the rest of the article appear to be false.

Following is the quote from this article, while the actual Bio of Scott Ritter is the last quote.

"Operation Rockingham is an intelligence unit whose existence was revealed in June 2003 by the Scottish Sunday Herald. Based mainly on an interview with former US military intelligence officer and chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, investigative journalist Neil Mackay describes the function of Operation Rockingham"

"He acted as head of the Weapons Concealment Unit, leading 30 inspection missions, 14 as team leader.[1] After he was singled out for expulsion from Iraq in August 1998, before UNSCOM was withdrawn, he said on the PBS show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer:"

It is factual that he was a team leader, not a chief inspector at any time. Overtly trying to lend more credit to Scott Ritter than is due, inadvertently takes away more credibility than it lends.

[edit] This article

.. seems to put the cart before the horse. It begins with uninformed speculation, discusses criticism, and finally comes round to giving the facts in the last paragraphs. Could do with a good copyedit. David | Talk 17:15, 13 December 2005 (UTC)