Full Version: British Report on Iraq
The UK dossier, entitled "Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation." was plagiarised from an article written by a scholar in Monterey, California.
This is what they have to stoop to when they make their case for war?
Colin Powell quoted the report during his U.N. address as a "fine paper ... which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities." I wonder where we get our 'intelligence' from.
This is what they have to stoop to when they make their case for war?
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"The British government's dossier is 19 pages long and most of pages 6 to 16 are copied directly from that document word for word, even the grammatical errors and typographical mistakes," Rangwala said.
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Al-Marashi's article, published last September, was based on information obtained at the time of the 1991 Gulf War, Rangwala said.
"The information he was using is 12 years old and he acknowledges this in his article. The British government, when it transplants that information into its own dossier, does not make that acknowledgement.
"So it is presented as current information about Iraq, when really the information it is using is 12 years old."
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"This document is clearly presented to the British public as the product of British intelligence and it clearly is nothing of the kind." CNN
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Al-Marashi's article, published last September, was based on information obtained at the time of the 1991 Gulf War, Rangwala said.
"The information he was using is 12 years old and he acknowledges this in his article. The British government, when it transplants that information into its own dossier, does not make that acknowledgement.
"So it is presented as current information about Iraq, when really the information it is using is 12 years old."
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"This document is clearly presented to the British public as the product of British intelligence and it clearly is nothing of the kind." CNN
Colin Powell quoted the report during his U.N. address as a "fine paper ... which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities." I wonder where we get our 'intelligence' from.
Russia reports:
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Ten of the nineteen pages of this “magnificent” intelligence supplied by the British had been copied, complete with spelling mistakes, from the thesis document. The other nine pages are copied and pasted from defence magazines readily available on the Internet, such as Jane’s Defence Weekly.
The text from the copied thesis refers to the practice of hiding weapons of mass destruction in Mosques and private residences, much referred to in Colin Powell’s speech to highlight what Washington understands as Iraq’s policy of cheating the inspections.
The fact that eight European Heads of Government (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, along with the United Kingdom’s Tony Blair) signed a letter this week supporting the American position is proof that they are wholly incompetent to be in their positions, being more motivated by a sycophantic and servile desire to be Washington’s lackeys, in return for spoils, than to render a serious and balanced service to their countries.
The fact that the UK and the USA can base a causus belli, a cause for war, knowingly, on such blatantly contrived, biased and false information is utterly incredible. It is the governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom which are cheating the international community, or in the words of George Bush, “stiffing”.
The greed for Iraq’s oil has led what used to be credible governments into a blind quest for power, through energy, no doubt egged on by the energy lobby pulling the strings in Washington.
That the United States of America could, at least, be so careless as to present this case for war against Iraq based upon such pretexts to the UN Security Council is paramount to criminal negligence, total disrespect or utter incompetence.
The world’s policeman has been caught red-handed with his fingers in the charity box.
The text from the copied thesis refers to the practice of hiding weapons of mass destruction in Mosques and private residences, much referred to in Colin Powell’s speech to highlight what Washington understands as Iraq’s policy of cheating the inspections.
The fact that eight European Heads of Government (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, along with the United Kingdom’s Tony Blair) signed a letter this week supporting the American position is proof that they are wholly incompetent to be in their positions, being more motivated by a sycophantic and servile desire to be Washington’s lackeys, in return for spoils, than to render a serious and balanced service to their countries.
The fact that the UK and the USA can base a causus belli, a cause for war, knowingly, on such blatantly contrived, biased and false information is utterly incredible. It is the governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom which are cheating the international community, or in the words of George Bush, “stiffing”.
The greed for Iraq’s oil has led what used to be credible governments into a blind quest for power, through energy, no doubt egged on by the energy lobby pulling the strings in Washington.
That the United States of America could, at least, be so careless as to present this case for war against Iraq based upon such pretexts to the UN Security Council is paramount to criminal negligence, total disrespect or utter incompetence.
The world’s policeman has been caught red-handed with his fingers in the charity box.
pravda
Keep grasping Dayna...mabe you will convince someone. They may ride the little bus...but you will convince them.
Darcaine
Darcaine
Convince them of what? Britain has admitted they copied the information. 
Yeah, I just saw this on CNN. This guy has majorly embarrassed the brits. Hes no doubt manning a radar tower in the arctic circle by now.
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