Spin-masters are trying to resuscitate the corpse of Bush's excuse for war in Iraq after it was learned yesterday that the supposed "up to date" intelligence report on Iraq's weapons shown to the United Nations by Colin Powell earlier this week was actually a patchwork of plagiarized student essays, some of which contained descriptions of Iraq's weapons from before the first Gulf War, 12 years ago!

It is important that this story and the links below be shared with everyone you know as this story is being ignored by the war-hungry US media.

2/7/03 BREAKING: LATEST BRITISH IRAQ DOSSIER HALED BY COLIN POWELL IS ACTUALLY PLAGIARIZED FROM STUDENT ESSAY! "On Monday, the day before the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell addressed the UN, Downing Street published its latest paper on Iraq. It gives the impression of being an up to the minute intelligence-based analysis - and Mr. Powell was fulsome in his praise. Published on the Number 10 web site, called "Iraq - Its Infrastructure of Concealment Deception and Intimidation", it outlines the structure of Saddam's intelligence organizations. But it made familiar reading to Cambridge academic Glen Ranwala. It was copied from an article last September in a small journal: the Middle East Review of International Affairs." Some of the info was from before the first Gulf War.
 http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20030206/dossier.html

2/7/03 UK war dossier a sham, say experts "Downing Street was last night plunged into acute international embarrassment after it emerged that large parts of the British government's latest dossier on Iraq - allegedly based on "intelligence material" - were taken from published academic articles, some of them several years old. "
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,890916,00.html

2/7/03 Reuter's picks up story of plagiarized report "This appears to be obsolete academic analysis dressed up as the best MI6 and our other international partners can produce on Saddam,"
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030207/80/dsgz6.html

2/7/03 UK defends 'copied' Iraq dossier Downing Street has defended an intelligence dossier of evidence against Iraq after allegations that it included plagiarized material that was 12 years out of date. The UK intelligence document released on Monday was designed to help win over skeptics by detailing Saddam Hussein's efforts to hide weapons of mass destruction. But Channel 4 News claimed the document was largely copied from three different articles, including one written by a postgraduate student.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2735031.stm

2/7/03 'Government plagiarized Iraq data' The story continues to spread!
 http://www.itv.com/news/1894417.html

2/7/03 The British Government Dossier cited by Colin Powell
 http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page7111.asp

2/7/03 One of the articles the dossier is plagiarized from, complete with typos and grammatical errors.
 http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2002/issue3/jv6n3a1.html

2/7/03 U.S. Scholar Uncredited in Iraq Report Claims that copying student papers was "research" fall flat on their face because the report's list of authors did not include the students whose essays were copied to make the report.
 http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030207&Category=API&ArtNo=302070708&Ref=AR

2/7/03 MI6 'intelligence' lifted from lecturer's article COLIN POWELL’S much-vaunted case for war against Iraq suffered a setback yesterday when it emerged that chunks of British “intelligence” that he invoked were copied verbatim from an old article by a young academic. “I was flattered at first, then surprised that they didn’t cite me,” said Ibrahim al-Marashi, 29, an Iraqi-American who lectures on the country that his parents fled in 1968. “I’ll be more skeptical of any British intelligence I read in future,” he said in a telephone interview. “It was a case of cut and paste. They even left in my mistakes.”
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-569257,00.html

2/7/03 News of Bogus UK Intelligence Report Sweeping the Planet
 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/020603_plagiarized.html

2/7/03 No 10 admits 'mistake' over thesis - Downing Street has said it made a mistake in failing to acknowledge that a large section of a dossier on Saddam Hussein was copied from a Californian postgraduate student's outdated thesis. See that word, "outdated"? The Dossier Powell was waving at the UN does NOT reflect Iraq as it is today but as it was years ago!
 http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/07/udoss.xml

2/7/03 U.S. Scholar Uncredited in Iraq Report THE AMERICAN PRESS PICKS UP THE STORY!
 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-iraq-dossier0207feb07,0,7845995.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dworld%2Dheadlines

2/7/03 DOWNING STREET REPORT IS 'RIP OFF'
 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12616651&method=full&siteid=50143

2/7/03 Britain's Iraq dossier plagiarized, outdated MORE US NEWSPAPERS COVERING THIS STORY!
 http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030207/frontpage/23539.shtml

2/7/03 UK's Blair under fire for plagiarized Iraq dossier Too bad the Tower is just a museum these days!
 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07508844

Plagiarize scandal story goes around the world, as seen on this screen capture from a Belgium teletext service. Translation: The alleged proof presented by the foreign state minister Colin Powell to the security council is no proof of recent developments and dates back to the 90s. According to an expert from the Swedish Institute for Peace Research (Sipri) the piece of film with Iraqi airplane was recorded in 1991. The elements in Powells evidence didn't show any proof of changes after the 90s justifying a war against Iraq.

2/7/03 UK report on Iraq was fake
 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=36681419

2/7/03 The UK Iraq dossier and its use of open sources "That open sources should be used to compile such a report is not in itself surprising – indeed, the use of open sources was acknowledged in the introduction to the document. However, the direct copying of entire paragraphs casts some doubt on the processes used to create dossiers of this type. "
 http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir030207_1_n.shtml

2/7/03 British dossier on alleged Iraqi WMD came from student's thesis
 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/europe/view/31857/1/.html

2/7/03 No 10 accused of plagiarizing Iraq dossier
 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWMAINDossier5FriDossier5Fri?version=1

2/7/03 NEW YORK TIMES PICKS UP PLAGIARISM STORY!
 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Britain-Iraq-Dossier.html

2/7/03 Plagiarism Allegations Embarrass Blair Administration
 http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200302\FOR20030207b.html

2/7/03 A dossier of evidence against Iraq is "solid", Downing Street has insisted after allegations that it included plagiarized material that was 12 years out of date. Phony Tony keeps a stiff upper lip
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2735031.stm

2/7/03 Der Spiegel picks up plageiarized dossier story
 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,234042,00.html