ABSTRACT
In the Iraq-United Nations chronicle, 1998 started with Unscom 227. Consisting of forty-three inspectors and their support staff, all working under Scott Ritter, it was divided into two operational teams, one headed by Ritter and the other by Dr Gabrielle Kraatz-Wadsack, a German biologist. On January 12, by Ritter’s own account, Unscom 227 carried out seven inspections, including one at the General Security headquarters and another at the Abu Ghraib prison 6 miles (10 km) west of Baghdad. Following the earlier, incomplete inspection by Dr Diane Seaman, these investigations were focused on finding documents showing that the Iraqi government had conducted biological and chemical weapons experiments on political prisoners, arrested by General Security and held at the Abu Ghraib jail, in 1994-95. According to Ritter, his teams found the records on the dates in question missing.
