File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0302, message 37


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.]


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