Blair Plagiarized Student Paper Because MI6
Refused to Fabricate al Qaeda Link
http://cryptome.org/mi6-mi6.htm
The report, released by the British government last Monday, is
entitled "Iraq - Its Infrastructure Of Concealment, Deception And
Intimidation". It is reproduced online at
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page7111.asp (references below to
page numbers relate to the downloadable Word version).
The first sentence of the document claims that it draws "upon a
number of sources, including intelligence material".
This is somewhat misleading.
The bulk of the 19-page document (pp.6-16) is directly
copied without acknowledgement from an article in last September's
Middle East Review of International Affairs entitled "Iraq's Security and
Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis".
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2002/issue3/jv6n3a1.html
The author of the piece is Ibrahim al-Marashi, a postgraduate
student at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has confirmed
that his permission was not sought; in fact, he didn't even know
about the British document until Glen Rangwala, a Cambridge-based Iraq
analyst,mentioned it to him.
It's quite striking that even Marashi's typographical errors and
anomolous uses of grammar are incorporated into the Downing Streetdocument.
For example, on p.13, the British dossier incorporates a misplaced
comma:
"Saddam appointed, Sabir 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Duri as head"..
Likewise, Marashi's piece also states:
"Saddam appointed, Sabir 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Duri as head"..
Refused to Fabricate al Qaeda Link
http://cryptome.org/mi6-mi6.htm
The report, released by the British government last Monday, is
entitled "Iraq - Its Infrastructure Of Concealment, Deception And
Intimidation". It is reproduced online at
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page7111.asp (references below to
page numbers relate to the downloadable Word version).
The first sentence of the document claims that it draws "upon a
number of sources, including intelligence material".
This is somewhat misleading.
The bulk of the 19-page document (pp.6-16) is directly
copied without acknowledgement from an article in last September's
Middle East Review of International Affairs entitled "Iraq's Security and
Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis".
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2002/issue3/jv6n3a1.html
The author of the piece is Ibrahim al-Marashi, a postgraduate
student at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has confirmed
that his permission was not sought; in fact, he didn't even know
about the British document until Glen Rangwala, a Cambridge-based Iraq
analyst,mentioned it to him.
It's quite striking that even Marashi's typographical errors and
anomolous uses of grammar are incorporated into the Downing Streetdocument.
For example, on p.13, the British dossier incorporates a misplaced
comma:
"Saddam appointed, Sabir 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Duri as head"..
Likewise, Marashi's piece also states:
"Saddam appointed, Sabir 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Duri as head"..