"The government's carefully co-ordinated propaganda offensive took an embarrassing hit tonight after Downing Street was accused of plagiarism. The target is an intelligence dossier released on Monday and heralded by none other than Colin Powell at the UN yesterday."
Several consumer products to get 'tagged' By Michelle Kessler, USA Today 1/27/03 San Francisco - "By the end of the year, a host of consumer products will, for the first time, be sold with tiny computer chips known as RFID tags in them. The chips contain small bits of data, such as a product's serial number, which can be read by a scanner. The scanner sends the data to a database so stores and manufacturers can quickly track what is sold. The radio frequency identification tags could dramatically improve inventory processes, retail analysts say, thus reduce costs and maybe consumer prices." http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-27-rfid_x.htm
from L Moss Sharman Ex-member of P.E.I. commune faces child sex charges Broadcast News Charlottetown - RCMP in P.E.I. have charged a former member of the religious commune with sexual assault. Daniel Ezra Boissonneault, 57, has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference. Police allege the offences took place between February 1999 and July 2001 at the commune in Hazel Grove led by Lucille Poulin. RCMP Sergeant Richard Thibault says the victim is a girl who is now 13 years old, and is not related to Boissonneault. The complaint was part of a police investigation into the 1999 death of a 12-year-old boy at the commune. Police say that investigation is still underway, and expect to have a report in two or three months." http://www.canada.com/
Sexually Abused Kids Don't All Become Adult Abusers: Study 2/6/03 By Serena Gordon (HealthScoutNews) - "A new British study disputes the common belief that someone who is sexually abused as a child will become a sexual predator as an adult. The researchers found that only 12 percent of 224 boys who had been sexually abused as children later became sexual abusers themselves. They also discovered that abusers shared similar risk factors growing up, such as abuse from a female or a history of cruelty to animals. "Most males who are sexually abused are unlikely to become sexual offenders," says the study's author, Dr. David Skuse, a professor of behavioral and brain sciences at the Institute for Child Health in London. "But it is possible to identify boys who are at higher risk, and thus to make sure we intervene with those most vulnerable children to prevent them from becoming the pedophiles of the future," he adds. The findings, published in the Feb. 8 issue of The Lancet, were challenged by at least one expert who says the percentage of abused-turned-predator is probably too low." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=97&u=/hsn/20030207/hl_hsn/sexually_abused_kids_don_t_all_become_adult_abusers__study&printer
Guilty Plea in Mass. Child-Abuse Case By Adam Gorlick 2/4/03 Worcester, Mass. - "One of five people charged in connection with the alleged decade-long sexual abuse of 10 children in central Massachusetts admitted his role in the assaults....Police say Dimo and his friends -- a woman, her husband, her ex-husband and her former brother-in-law - sexually abused 10 children ranging in age from 6 to 17, at various times from 1990 to 2001." http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/sns-ap-abuse-worcester0204feb04,0,6700958.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
Child-porn convict handed record-high prison sentence by Jose Martinez 2/6/03 "A Leominster man who pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing more than 1,000 kiddie porn images yesterday received the longest-ever federal sentence related to child pornography in Massachusetts. Christopher Albert, 41, pleaded guilty Oct. 28 in U.S. District Court in Worcester. Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton sentenced him to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release and intensive sex offender treatment."Albert was a repeat sex offender on state probation with a suspended sentence hanging over him at the time of his arrest in this case," U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said. "His history of assaulting children, combined with his ongoing child pornography collection and distribution activities, revealed that he was a predator who posed a significant risk to children in his community." http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/porn02062003.htm
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/02/uk020603.html
Government 'intelligence' report on Iraq revealed as plagiarism
Release: Government 'intelligence' report on Iraq revealed as plagiarismThe British government's latest report on Iraq's non-compliance with weapons inspections, which claims to draw on "intelligence material", has been revealed as a wholesale plagiarism of three old and publicly-available articles, one of them by a graduate student in California. The compiler did not even clean up the typos or standardize the spelling.
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. 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 Rangwala. 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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/international/middleeast/02INTE.html
Split at C.I.A. and F.B.I. on Iraqi Ties to Al Qaeda
By JAMES RISEN and DAVID JOHNSTON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The Bush administration's efforts to build a case for war against Iraq using intelligence to link it to Al Qaeda and the development of prohibited weapons has created friction within United States intelligence agencies, government officials said. Some analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency have complained that senior administration officials have exaggerated the significance of some intelligence reports about Iraq, particularly about its possible links to terrorism, in order to strengthen their political argument for war, government officials said. At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's network. "We've been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said.
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