Downing St. plagiarises 12 year old thesis to produce a 'fine paper'
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Sunday February 09, 2003 03:38
by Phuq Hedd
Observer spills the beans on a poor piece of lying
Powell adverted to a "fine paper" during his show and tell before the Security Council. This "fine paper" was supposed to be the British proof and evidence that Iraq was in violation of Security Council resolutions. Ah, you thought to yourselves, thank God for MI5 and Echelon and all the spying they do on us and on foreigners, the massive intelligence apparatus has gained something. Think again! Blair's spin-doctor, a Private Secretary and some interns plagiarised a 12-year old thesis published by an Iraqi in an American university.
Move along citizens, nothing to see, move along.
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"Iraq dossier assembled by junior aides
By Rosemary Bennett and Elaine Monaghan
DOWNING STREET’S embarrassment over its Iraq “intelligence” dossier deepened
yesterday with the disclosure that key sections were cobbled together by junior
communications unit staff, including Alastair Campbell’s secretary.
Officials also admitted that chunks of the document — praised by Colin Powell on
Wednesday for its “exquisite detail” — were copied word-for-word from an article by a
29-year-old Californian academic.
The sentences were lifted from an article by Ibrahim al-Marishi, an Iraqi-American, in the
September edition of Middle East Review of International Affairs. He, in turn, sourced his
information to a 1999 book by the former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who opposes
President Bush’s Iraq policy."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-570248,00.html
"Equisite Details "
by JP 6:59pm Sat Feb 8 '03
LONDON TIMES
"Iraq dossier assembled by junior aides
By Rosemary Bennett and Elaine Monaghan
DOWNING STREET’S embarrassment over its Iraq “intelligence” dossier deepened
yesterday with the disclosure that key sections were cobbled together by junior
communications unit staff, including Alastair Campbell’s secretary.
Officials also admitted that chunks of the document — praised by Colin Powell on
Wednesday for its “exquisite detail” — were copied word-for-word from an article by a
29-year-old Californian academic.
The sentences were lifted from an article by Ibrahim al-Marishi, an Iraqi-American, in the
September edition of Middle East Review of International Affairs. He, in turn, sourced his
information to a 1999 book by the former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who opposes
President Bush’s Iraq policy."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article
"Ibrahim al-Marashi is a research associate at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies in Monterey, California as well as a lecturer at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is currently working on a project on Iraqi intelligence operations in northern Iraq and Kuwait."
That's the "author of the paper" description from the Meria Journal. And look see where that journal is located and how connected. I'm not at all sure that providing "credits" would have helped the cause.
and it is screening Blair. Normally in musical drama smoke precludes a scene when the singers depart the stage and the musicians get busy. Blair has so many enemies who have waited so long to see him so strangely vulnerable. To think that a "right wing warmongering Blair" would prove more easy to dirtytrick and bring down than a "socialist Blair". But then again we can not remember a "socialist Blair" but some of the "country side alliance crew" are surely sniggering at their Sunday Telegraphs this morning. I find this slightly creepy, I do think that Clare Short stands a reasonable chance of moving into Blair´s shoes soon. Does anyone else agree with me that this article is indicitave of "backstage" moves to bring down the end of the "Blair/Campbell/Mandelson" cabal?
or am I barking up the wrong tree following the wrong libretto? barking mad perhaps.
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