Panel discusses impact of attacks

Four faculty and one outside expert will discuss the impact of the recent terrorist attacks in a panel titled "September 11, 2001: The Repercussions One Month Later" on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in Reamer Auditorium.

Panelists are Scott Ritter, former U.N. arms inspector in Iraq and a specialist on Middle East affairs; Michele Angrist, political science, on Islam and the Muslim World; Tom Lobe, political science, on Pakistan; and Andrew Feffer, history, on the domestic implications of the attacks. Teresa Meade of history and women's studies will moderate the discussion.

Ritter's talk is titled "Looking for Symmetry in an Asymmetrical World: America's Policy on Iraq as

a Model for Failure in the Middle East." Ritter, a resident of Glenmont, served for eight years as an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps, and served as an arms control inspector in the former Soviet Union and on General Norman Schwarzkopf's staff during the Gulf War before his appointment as a weapons inspector for UNSCOM.  As chief of the Concealment Investigations Team, he oversaw efforts to uncover Iraq's capability to produce and deliver weapons of mass destruction.

He has written about his experiences in Iraq in Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and For All (Simon & Schuster, 1999).