[Peace-discuss] Important Rebuttal to Blair's dossier

[Janette Poulton]

 	http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20030206/dossier.html

Downing St dossier plagiarised 	  
Iraq 	 

Published: 6 February 2003
Reporter: Julian Rush

The government's carefully co-ordinated propaganda offensive took an embarrassing 
hit tonight after Downing Street was accused of plagiarism.

The target is an intelligence dossier released on Monday and heralded by none 
other than Colin Powell at the UN yesterday.

Channel Four News has learnt that the bulk of the nineteen page document was 
copied from three different articles - one written by a graduate student. 
  ....

But it made familiar reading to Cambridge academic Glen Ranwala. It was copied 
from an article last September in a small journal: the Middle East Review 
of International Affairs.


It's author, Ibrahim al-Marashi, a postgraduate student from Monterey in California.
  Large sections do indeed appear, verbatim.

A section, for example, six paragraphs long, on Saddam's Special Security 
Organisation, the exact same words are in the Californian student's paper.

In several places Downing Street edits the originals to make more sinister 
reading.

Number 10 says the Mukhabarat - the main intelligence agency - is "spying 
on foreign embassies in Iraq".

The original reads: "monitoring foreign embassies in Iraq."

ETC

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