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discrediting UK/US assertions about Iraq's WMD

free spirit | 11.03.2003 03:34

A detailed critique of US/UK allegations concerning Iraq's WMD and breaches of UN resolutions on disarmament. This critique was compiled by Dr Glen Rangwala, the Cambridge academic who was responsible for exposing Tony Blair’s much vaunted intelligence dossier as a plagiarised version of an old PHD report.

I'm working with a group of US / Canadian activists from www.democraticunderground.com in an attempt to publicise a highly detailed critique of US & UK accusations concerning Iraq's WMD. We hope to gain press coverage of this report to discredit the US/UK assertion that Iraq is in material breach of 1441, thereby removing their major stated rationale for war. The current strategy is to target UK journalists and MP's on the basis that they are generally more sympathetic, and Blair is facing strong revolts as it is.   I'd appreciate it if anyone with good media links, or links with politicians etc. could join this effort to get the contents of this dossier into the public domain.     This critique is compiled by Dr Glen Rangwala, the Cambridge academic who was responsible for exposing Tony Blair’s much vaunted intelligence dossier as a plagiarised version of an old PHD report.     All the information in the report has been compiled from reputable sources (with direct links to the source), mostly UN reports and weapons inspectors reports, and is structured in such a way as to directly disprove / discredit specific allegations made by the US & UK in the last 6 months.   This document has the potential to seriously discredit the US/Uk arguements on WMD, seriously questioning the evidence that Iraq is in material breach of UN resolution 1441, and thereby seriously eroding the current justification for war.   It should be noted that the document doesn't actually contain new information as such, what it does is to collate all the US/UK allegations in one space together with detailed rebuttals of these assertions sourced mainly from official UN and weapons inspectors reports. IMO it is a highly valuable resource for anyone attempting to discredit the WMD arguement, and hopefully if it can be spread widely enough the media will have to pick up on it.   The dossier can be found here http://www.middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweapons.html one of several threads on democraticunderground is here http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID66/3099.html   and the Urban 75 thread relating to this is here http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35378&am p;perpage=25&pagenumber=1   The DU people are currently emailing all UK anti-war MP's, and have been talking with a uk journalist (though i'm not sure who, or whether this will result in anything). Basically if anyone can help get this out into the public domain IMO it has the potential to seriously blow up in the media this week, throwing a major spanner in the works of the US/UK push to legitimise war.   all comments appreciated, and media savvy input is particularly needed.   fs

free spirit
- e-mail: electrofriedgav@hotmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweapons.html

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  1. summary please — goatchurch