RE:"Has anyone heard this story in either America's print or talk media, beyond MSNBC?"
Babel Fish Translation French>English of radio-canada.ca
The report presented Monday by the British government and whose objective was to show that Iraq had weapons of massive destruction is to a large extent the plagiarism of the work of an American student and not, as affirmed it London, the result of an investigation of its services of information.
Thursday evening, Glen Rangwala, which teaches the policy at the university of Cambridge, affirmed that six to 16 of the 19 pages of the British report had been recopied word for word starting from the thesis of one of its students, Ibrahim Al-Marashi. "Including the grammatical errors and the spelling mistakes", it underlined. Naturally, the report/ratio did not mention any original author.
Friday, Downing Street recognized the facts, but ensured that information, old women 12 year old, was always valid. Mr. Al-Marashi indicated that his thesis had been published last September in the review Middle East Review of International Affairs , specifying that its information came from documents seized in 1991 by Kurdish rebels and files given up by the Iraqis after their departure of Koweït.
The Secretary of State American, Powell Hake, had refers to the British report/ratio when it presented his own evidence of the duplicity of Baghdad.
"I would like to draw the attention of my colleagues to the excellent dossier presented by the United Kingdom, which describes in detail the Iraqi activities of dissimulation", it had declared.
This obvious offence of attempt at handling of the public opinion certainly will not help the Prime Minister Tony Blair to convince the British of the need for a war against Iraq.
It had besides of it an outline, Thursday evening, when it was highly challenged during nearly one hour by televiewers of the BBC who described it of "vice-president" of the United States and "honorable representing district of Texas north ".
"It is a new example in the way in which the government tries to mislead the public and the Parliament on a possible war against Iraq", for its part estimated the actress Glenda Jackson, appointed Labour. |
