Channel 4 Reports that Downing St. dossier was plagiarised from document describing Iraq in 1991

[David Farber <farber () tmail com>]

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From: Bob Porter <bporter () theideasgroup com>
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Channel 4 Reports that Downing St. dossier was plagiarised from 
document describing Iraq in 1991
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:29:54 -0800


Downing St dossier plagiarised




Iraq






Published: 6 February 2003
Reporter: Julian Rush

The government's carefully co-ordinated propaganda offensive took an
embarrassing hit tonight after Downing Street was accused of 
plagiarism.


The target is an intelligence dossier released on Monday and heralded 
by
none other than Colin Powell at the UN yesterday.

Channel Four News has learnt that the bulk of the nineteen page 
document
was copied from three different articles - one written by a graduate
student.

On Monday, the day before the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell
addressed the UN, Downing Street published its latest paper on Iraq.

It gives the impression of being an up to the minute 
intelligence-based
analysis - and Mr. Powell was fulsome in his praise.



                        



Full story below:



The Channel 4 story is at:

http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20030206/dossier.html



The Official UK intelligence report is at:

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page7111.asp



The original student research paper is located at:
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2002/issue3/jv6n3a1.html






Bob Porter
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-- Dave

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