Government Dossier Plagiarised

This is just incred­i­ble. A Down­ing Street dossier on Iraq, sin­gled out for praise by Colin Powell as he addressed the UN, was crudely pla­gia­rised from a number of sources. Chiefly an essay by Cal­i­forn­ian post­grad­u­ate stu­dent Ibrahim al-​Marash, more specif­i­cally infor­ma­tion drawn from 12 year old doc­u­ments con­cern­ing the Iraqui occu­pa­tion of Kuwait. There are sev­eral instances of pla­gia­rised mate­r­ial being delib­er­ately edited to make Saddam Hussein’s regime seem more sinister.

This does rather cast doubt on every­thing else they’re asking us to believe about Iraq.

1. The dossier: Iraq - its infra­struc­ture of con­ceal­ment, decep­tion and intim­i­da­tion
2. Orig­i­nal essay: Iraq’s secu­rity and intel­li­gence net­work: a guide and analy­sis
3. Chan­nel 4 News report

Posted at 7pm on 06/02/03 by Jack Mottram to the politics category.
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