-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Graham < Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:42 PM Subject: [houstonpeaceroundtable] FW: [togethernet] [NEWS] Tony Blair's Plagiarism: UNBELIEVABLE
> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raja Mattar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:13 AM > To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; > Subject: [togethernet] [NEWS] Tony Blair's Plagiarism: UNBELIEVABLE > > > [This is how low the obsessed prime minister of a country that used to be a > great empire has stooped in order to get his war.] > > TONY BLAIR'S "UP TO DATE" INTEL ASSESSMENT OF IRAQ WAS PLAGIARISED FROM > STUDENT'S ESSAY > > by Gordon Thomas > Prime Minister Tony Blair's "up to the minute" assessment of Saddam's > arsenal - presented as the input of MI5 and MI6 - was in fact plagiarised > from an essay by an Arab student! > > The revelation has seriously torpedoed Blair's credibility - and created > behind-the-scenes fury in the White House. President Bush had cited the > document as "independent proof" to support Secretary of State Collin Powell' > s "show and tell" performance at the United Nations. > > The Downing Street document - published on its official website is titled: > "Iraq: It's Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation". > > The clear implication was that it had been compiled from the very latest > input from MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - Britain's "ear in the sky" global listening > agency. > > Colin Powell, in his 90 minute performance at the UN heralded it as an > "important contribution to revealing the truth about Saddam". > > But when Britain's intelligence chiefs saw the 19-page document, they were > furious. They immediately recognised that it had been culled from three > separate articles. > > But the bulk of the 19-page Downing Street document - on which Blair's > government has based its carefully co-ordinated offensive against anti-war > protesters - was written by an Arab post-graduate student in California. > > He is Ibrahim al-Marashi, who studied politics at the small university of > Monteray outside Los Angeles. > > Large sections of his essay were copied verbatim on to the Downing Street > site - under the bold claim that the revelations, for the first time, > "outlines the structure of Saddam's intelligence organisations". > > Horrified Intel chiefs, Eliza Manningham-Buller of MI5, and Richard > Dearlove, head of MI6, pointed out the source of the claim was a student's > article in the specialist journal, "The Middle East Review of International > Affairs". The article was published six months ago. Both MI5 and MI6 > subscribe to the journal - as does the CIA. > > The already cold relationship between Downing Street and the spy agencies > has plummeted with the discovery that the Prime Minister's official website > had plagiarised an old document - and dressed it up as the very latest > intelligence from MI5 and MI6. > > "The student has no contacts with secret intelligence. He simply wrote a > discursive paper, the kind any postgrad student does", said an MI5 source. > > "In cribbing it, Downing Street just showed how desperate it is to promote > the war", he added. > > The source pointed out that large sections of the student's original article > appears verbatim on the Downing Street site. > > Six paragraphs on Saddam's Special Security Organisation are the exact same > words as the Californian student's paper. > > In several places, Downing Street edits the originals to make more sinister > reading. > > Number 10 says the Mukhabarat - the main intelligence agency - is "spying on > foreign embassies in Iraq". > > The original reads: "monitoring foreign embassies in Iraq". > > And the provocative role of "supporting terrorist organisations in hostile > regimes" has a weaker, political context in the original: "aiding opposition > groups in hostile regimes". > > Even typographic mistakes in the original article are repeated. Of military > intelligence, al-Marashi writes in his paper: > > "The head of military intelligence generally did not have to be a relative > of Saddam's immediate family, nor a Tikriti. Saddam appointed, Sabir Abd > Al-Aziz Al-Duri as head." Note the comma after appointed. > > Downing Street paraphrases the first sentence: "Saddam appointed, Sabir 'Abd > al-'Aziz al-Duri as head during the 1991 Gulf War". > > This second line is cut and posted, complete with the same grammatical > error: "Saddam appointed, Sabir 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Duri as head during the > 1991 Gulf War. After the Gulf War he was replaced by Wafiq Jasim > al-Samarrai". > > Downing Street document: "These shifting appointments are part of Saddam's > policy of balancing security positions. By constantly shifting the > directors of these agencies, no one can establish a base in a security > organisation for a substantial period of time. No one becomes powerful > enough to challenge the President". > > Student's document: "These shifting appointments are part of Saddam's policy > of balancing security positions between Tikritis and non-Tikritis, in the > belief that the two factions would not unite to overthrow him. Not only > that, but by constantly shifting the directors of these agencies, no one can > establish a base in a security organisation for a substantial period of > time, that would challenge the President". > > Page after page of identical textual "lifting" can be identified. > > An MI5 source said: "How did Downing Street ever hope to get away with this? > This appears to be the most blatant piece of plagiarism ever committed by a > British government in living memory". > > ends > > ----------------------- > > Books by Gordon Thomas: > > Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy: The... > Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad > Seeds of Fire: China And The Story.Behind The Attack on America > > > GLOBE-INTEL is a free subscription service provided by > http://www.globe-intel.net & http://www.web-intel.net > > Click here for a Satellite TV System Installed FREE with No Credit Check! > Carrots Ink Cartridges > e-vacations.com : where custom-designed vacations begin > Access Your PC from Anywhere - Free Download > PC Magazine calls GoToMyPC "Revolutionary." > > > __________ > To unsubscribe: > http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/unsubscribe.php?globeintel+ranimar@cy > beria.net.lb > This newsletter is hosted by http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! 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