I posted this link before but look at the comment at the end. If you have not read the link, I highly recommend it. From Nills44 on the FOOL
electroniciraq.net
This was an extreme embarasment ot Blair and Powell.
Powell has been diccredited in the eyes of many of our allies.
Read the whole thing.
The most damming thing was the copying of typographical errors, and the rounding up of key numbers.
It is now clear that the document cited by Powell, and claimed by the U.K. government to be an "intelligence" document, was nothing more than a piece of propaganda assembled neither by intelligence staff, nor by Middle East experts, but by U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's press spokesmen Alistair Cambell and a few low level office helpers. Key sections of the document were plagiarized from published articles and a student paper, some of which information was more than 12 years old. Eager to help incriminate Iraq, and sensationalize government claims, the authors of this fraudulent document changed words in the article they plagiarized from Oxford-based graduate student Ibrahim al-Marashi, for example substituting "spying" for "monitoring," and "terrorist organizations" for "opposition groups >>>
The most incredible thing about this is that this has been a major news item in Europe. The news media in the USA has, for whatever reason, kept quiet about it. The newsmedia in the USA is more and more resembling the newsmedia in the old Soviet Union. That's where the government owned TASS, their own newsmedia. |
