Downing Street accused of
                  dossier plagiarism

                  By Nigel Morris Political
                  Correspondent

                  07 February 2003
                  The Government was accused last night of
                  plagiarising sections of an intelligence dossier on
                  Iraq from a postgraduate student.
                  Channel 4 News reported that paragraphs had
                  been lifted from an article in the Middle East
                  Review of International Affairs last year by
                  Ibrahim al-Marashi, a student from Monterey,
                  California.
                  The analysis, published on the Downing Street
                  website, was called Iraq – Its Infrastructure of
                  Concealment Deception and Intimidation.
                  Glen Rangwala, an academic at Cambridge
                  University, had spotted the student's work
                  because passages containing typographical
                  errors were repeated in the dossier, Channel 4
                  said.
                  The document was cited by Colin Powell, the US
                  Secretary of State, in his address to the UN on
                  Wednesday. A Downing Street statement said
                  the report was accurate and that it had not
                  claimed "exclusivity".