From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:58:02 EST Subject: Re: soliloquy the miasma of 'proof texts' for the just war... 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. Read sample of the accused plagiarised text 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. On Monday, the day before the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell addressed the UN, Downing Street published its latest paper on Iraq. It gives the impression of being an up to the minute intelligence-based analysis - and Mr Powell was fulsome in his praise. Published on the Number 10 web site, called "Iraq - Its Infrastructure of Concealment Deception and Intimidation", it outlines the structure of Saddam's intelligence organisations. 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. [etc. etc. etc.] --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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