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To: zonder who wrote (3898)	2/13/2003 7:57:35 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

or maybe and most likely "Mark Gwozdecky" is the liar! I believe that Mr. Gwozdecky's comment was meant as job security. He doesn't want to his his fellow inspectors get downsized out of Iraq next week. You choose to believe Terrorists and rodents, I believe my President and his Secretary of State. By the way, ya 'all... Don't drink French Red Wine, it is clarified with Bovine Blood, and remember than some French bottled waters may not meet all US standards for human consumption. Also note, Japan makes cars that equal or surpass Germany quality in the luxury market. Send Chirac and Schroeder a message. Vote with your wallet. Go Hershey's chocolate and order pancakes instead of those Belgium waffles. We don't need to eat any food that reminds us of Europeans waffling!

To: zonder who wrote (3898)	2/13/2003 8:58:05 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

zonder, documenting a lie is not ad hominem. Perhaps a better example of ad hominem would be the repeated referral to Bush as a "moron" and the comparison of him to Hitler by a German candidate in their recent election.

To: zonder who wrote (3898)	2/13/2003 6:32:13 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

zonder, I did a bit of research into the plagiarism. The report apparently did draw on an article by Ibrahim al-Marashi. The article was published in the Sept. 2002 issue of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. You call him a "student" but he is a PhD. research associate at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies in Monterey, California as well as a lecturer at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is currently working on a project on Iraqi intelligence operations in northern Iraq and Kuwait. The editor of Middle East Review of International Affairs had this to say about the report: The fact is that the report was a good one. The information was correct and highly useful. If I may be permitted a humorous note, perhaps the world and the Middle East would be a better place if more governments used MERIA articles to explain current developments and inform their people. We are pleased that the high quality of MERIA Journal’s articles has made them so valuable to our readers, who now number almost 20,000 people around the world, including many government officials, as well as diplomats, journalists, scholars, and students. As noted on the masthead of each issue and all our publications, however, we do appreciate being given credit. The fact is that the articles by Mr. Marashi and our other authors are highly accurate, insightful, original, and extremely timely. This was our goal when we began seven years ago and the many letters we receive from readers tell us that we are in general achieving this objective. We hope these events will inspire more people to read MERIA. Now where did Mr. Marashi get his information. According to his list of sources much of the information came from Sean Boyne and Tony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Cordesman has stated that he got most of his information from British intelligence in the first place. Here is Cordesman's report published by CSIS in 1998: csis.org So the material rather than being 12 years old is described by its publisher as highly accurate, insightful, original, and extremely timely. As confirmed by Cordesman, the material did largely originate from British Intelligence. The only minor criticism is that Marashi's article could have been noted. However, that does not detract from the quality or timeliness of the information.