Iraq

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Downing St admits blunder on Iraq dossier
Plagiarism row casts shadow over No 10's case against Saddam
Michael White, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday February 8, 2003, The Guardian

"Downing Street yesterday apologised for its failure to acknowledge that
much of its latest dossier on Iraq was lifted from academic sources, as the
affair threatened to further undermine confidence in the government's case
for disarming Saddam Hussein. (...) Though it now appears to have been a
journalistic cut and paste job rather than high-grade intelligence analysis,
the dossier ended up being cited approvingly on worldwide TV by the US
secretary of state, Colin Powell, when he addressed the UN security council
on Wednesday."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,891577,00.html

"(...) it is another example of how the government is attempting to mislead
the country and Parliament on the issue of a possible war with Iraq. And of
course to mislead is a Parliamentary euphemism for lying."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2735031.stm

"For instance, the second section of the three-part report, which is
described on the Downing Street Web site as providing "up-to-date details of
Iraq's network of intelligence and security," was drawn in large part from
"Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: a Guide," an article about the
activities of Iraqi intelligence in Kuwait in 1990 and 1991, which appeared
in the Middle East Review of International Affairs last September. Its
author was Ibrahim al-Marashi, a postgraduate student at the Monterey
Institute of International Studies in California."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/international/europe/08BRIT.html

Colin Powell has presented faked evidence provided by Tony Blair. To me this
says a lot about the general quality of the American allegations. Powell and
Blair have lied about the Iraq-threat and they both should resign.

There hasn't been any convincing justification for a war presented up to
now, this "affair" shows how the pro-war-coalition exactly is doing what
Saddam is being accused of -- deceiving, lying and cheating.

Otto

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