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Subject: Powell Cited Sham "Fine Paper"
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> PM Friday, February 7, 2003
>
> Powell Cited Sham "Fine Paper"
>
> "My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by
> sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you
> are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence....
> "I would call my colleagues' attention to the fine paper that the
> United Kingdom distributed yesterday which describes in exquisite detail
> Iraqi deception activities."
> -- Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations Security
> Council, Feb. 5
>
> GLEN RANGWALA, [log in to unmask],
> http://www.middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweapons.html
> Rangwala is a lecturer in politics at Cambridge University in Britain. He
> has written a report: "A First Response to Secretary Colin Powell's
> Presentation Concerning Iraq" [ available at
> http://www.traprockpeace.org/firstresponse.html ] which takes issue with
> many of Powell's assertions.
>
> In his analysis of Powell's claims, Rangwala found that
> substantial portions of "the fine paper that the United Kingdom
distributed
> yesterday" referred to by Powell on Wednesday before the Council (entitled
> "Iraq: Its Infrastructure Of Concealment, Deception And Intimidation")
were
> plagiarized from pre-existing sources including a paper by a postgraduate
> student, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, in California. Rangwala noted: "It's quite
> striking that even Al-Marashi's typographical errors and anomalous uses of
> grammar are incorporated into the Blair government document. Al-Marashi
has
> confirmed to me that his permission was not sought; in fact, he didn't
even
> know about the British document until I mentioned it to him.... None of
the
> sources [in the Blair government document] are acknowledged, leading the
> reader to believe it is a result of direct investigative work, rather than
> simply copied from pre-existing Internet sources."
>
> For more information, see:
> http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2003/msg00457.html
>
> WILLIAM RIVERS PITT, [log in to unmask],
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/020803A.htm
> Author of the book "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know,"
> Pitt said today: "An analysis of the footnotes for the Al-Marashi essay
> clearly demonstrates that his work was meant to describe Iraq's
> intelligence apparatus and military situation in the 1990s. The British
> dossier was presented as an up-to-date report on the status of Iraq's
> weapons and terrorist ties.... Between other questionable sources and the
> unreliable data from the British, it seems all too clear that Powell's
> presentation was based upon information that is questionable to say the
least."
>
> JOHN QUIGLEY, [log in to unmask]
> Professor of international law at Ohio State University, Quigley said
> today: "The U.S. has presented information to the Security Council on war
> and peace issues that later turned out to be false...."
>
> Note: This morning, Norman Solomon, the Institute for Public Accuracy's
> executive director and coauthor of the new book "Target Iraq," took calls
> from people who agree with Bush policy for one hour on C-Span. To watch
the
> "Washington Journal" interview, go to the following web page and click on
> the red arrow next to Norman Solomon's name:
>
http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Series&Code=WJE&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_
CD=WJ&Rot_HT=205&Rot_WD=
> This video requires a Real media player. If you don't have one, you can
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>
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ePlayerV2GOLD.exe&p=RealOne+Player&oem=dl&tagtype=ie&type=dl
>
> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
> Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
>
>
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