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Date: 2003-02-08
Schülerarbeiten in Geheimdienst-Dosiers-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- [...] Plagiarism is regarded as intellectual theft. Glen Rangwala, an Iraq specialist at Cambridge University who analysed the Downing Street dossier, said 11 of the dossier's 19 pages were "taken wholesale from academic papers." "If the nature of the intelligence is actually just web research, then it rather casts doubt about the plausibility of the government's earlier claims," said Rangwala. Some of the information was copied from an article last September in a small journal: the Middle East Review of International Affairs. It's author, Ibrahim al-Marashi, a postgraduate student from Monterey in California. [...] Intellectual theft [...] Even typographic mistakes in the original articles are repeated. Of military intelligence, al-Marashi writes in his original paper: "The head of military intelligence generally did not have to be a relative of Saddam's immediate family, nor a Tikriti. Saddam appointed, Sabir Abd Al-Aziz Al-Duri as head..." Note the comma after appointed. Downing Street paraphrases the first sentence: Saddam appointed, Sabir 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Duri as head during the 1991 Gulf War." This second line is cut and pasted, complete with the same grammatical error. [...] Thin evidence [...] British ministers have privately admitted that gathering information on Iraq is extremely difficult and intelligence on Baghdad is "thin". One of Blair's former junior defense ministers, Peter Kilfoyle, said he was shocked that the government was trying to win over Britons on such "thin evidence". Rangwala said the document was sloppy and appeared to have been pulled together in a hurry. [...] More on ISN Security Watch: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/secwatch/index.cfm?service=cwn&parent=detail&menu=8&sNewsID=5762 - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Chris published on: 2003-02-08 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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