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Powell cited sham fine paper { February 7 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org Powell Cited Sham "Fine Paper" (fwd) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:41:12 -0500 From: Institute for Public Accuracy To: public@lists.accuracy.org 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 * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ 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, gr10009@cam.ac.uk, 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, william.pitt@truthout.org, 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, quigley.2@osu.edu 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/RealOnePlayerV2GOLD.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: public@lists.accuracy.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: public-unsubscribe@lists.accuracy.org For all list information and functions, including changing your subscription mode and options, visit the Web page: http://lists.accuracy.org/lists/info/public

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