----- Original Message ----- From: "Institute for Public Accuracy" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:41 PM Subject: Powell Cited Sham "Fine Paper" > Institute for Public Accuracy > 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 > (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * [log in to unmask] > ___________________________________________________ > > 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 > download it free at: > http://forms.real.com/netzip/getrde601.html?h=207.188.7.150&f=windows/RealOn 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 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > [log in to unmask] > To be removed from the list, send any message to: > [log in to unmask] > > For all list information and functions, including changing > your subscription mode and options, visit the Web page: > http://lists.accuracy.org/lists/info/public ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~