Barry Rubin, Op-ed to Washington Post

To the Editor:

As editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal,  I must correct inaccurate
statements about my magazine made in the Washington Post article, February 8, regarding the British
government's plagiarism of our material. Your article states the British government paper was based on
12-year-old research by Ibrahim Marashi. In fact, Mr. Marashi used documents captured from Iraq in 1991 but the research was done recently. All material in his article, "Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis," was updated to reflect changes in Iraq's intelligence apparatus. Your article also mistakenly stages that sections were copied from an article by Glen Rangwala in our journal. In fact, Dr. Rangwala was the reader who discovered the plagiarismof Mr. Marashi's work.
  We believe that the article and its information was of the highest quality and deserved the wide
distribution it received and the praise from Secretary of State Colin Powell. The only problem is that the
Prime Minister's office did not credit us and Mr.Marashi for our work. Anyone wishing to see the
original article can do so at http://meria.idc.ac.il.

Professor Barry Rubin, Editor, MERIA Journal