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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (7721)	2/13/2003 12:52:35 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 25898

I hope he is interviewed. I've posted info on him before. >>>> Sections in the dossier on Saddam's security apparatus drew heavily on a 2002 article written by Ibrahim al-Marashi, a 29-year-old U.S. postgraduate student of Iraqi descent who works at California's Monterey Institute of International Studies. His major sources were captured Iraqi intelligence documents from prior to 1991 that are part of Harvard's Iraq Research and Documentation Project, as well as books and public information. Marashi, who has never been to Iraq, told Reuters he was surprised and flattered that his research ended up in a British government dossier -- but could have provided the government with updated information if anyone had asked. "The fact that they would have to turn to something in the open media reflects that maybe there is a deficiency in the intelligence gathering," he said. "My primary worry at the moment is that it might reflect poorly on Powell's presentation by the very fact that he referred to that document." .... The editor of Jane's Intelligence Review, Chris Aaron, said sections of articles in his magazine published between 1997 and 2002 were also used in the dossier. "The fact that the UK dossier does not identify the source for each bit of evidence in the report could be taken as misleading or taken to be an effort to disguise the classified material included in the dossier," he said in a statement. uk.news.yahoo.com This is the "grad student": Ibrahim Marashi is a Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His research focuses on the diffusion of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and missile technologies in the Middle East, particularly Iraq and Iran. Marashi received a MA in Political Science at the Arab Studies Center at Georgetown in 1997. He has a BA in History and Near Eastern Studies from the University of California Los Angeles. Prior to joining CNS, Marashi worked with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University on a project classifying captured Iraqi state documents. He was also a researcher on Iran-Iraq affairs at the US State Department, Congressional Research Service, and National Defense University. http://cns.miis.edu/cns/staff/mara.htm