It has been revealed a British
Government dossier, said to be the
latest intelligence on Iraq, was copied
word-for-word from published
sources.
But the BBC reports the Prime Minister's office is standing by the dossier,
and says it came from several sources.
Downing Street last weekend presented the dossier as an up-to-date,
intelligence-led assessment of Iraq's concealment and deception efforts.
In fact entire pages were copied without acknowledgment from a PhD thesis
published in an American academic journal last year.
Another page was copied from an article in the magazine Jane's Intelligence
Review. The article is six-years-old.
The Government even reproduced typing and grammatical mistakes made by
the PhD student, 29-year-old Ibrihim Al Marashi.
Mr Al Marashi said he had no idea his work had been used by Downing
Street and he was stunned.
Brits unconvinced
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted he still needs to
do a lot of persuading to win public support for war against Iraq.
Answering public questions on the Iraq crisis in a BBC television forum, Mr
Blair acknowledged it will take a new United Nations resolution to get more
people on his side.
Audience members called him Mr Vice President, mocking his alliance with
George W Bush and asked for evidence Iraq is threatening Britain.
Mr Blair said Saddam Hussein is engaged in a systematic campaign of
concealing his weapons of mass destruction.
He said there was evidence of a poison factory in Northern Iraq that had
distributed ricin and other chemicals around the world; and intelligence
showed terrorist groups were trying every day to get hold of such materials.
Mr Blair acknowledged his policy is difficult and unpopular but said he
believes it is right to confront Iraq, even if a second UN resolution is blocked.
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