British Government Plagiarizes MERIA Journal

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/iraq/ [Global Security - Iraq reports]
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/ [Federation of American Scientists - Iraq reports]
http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/index102102.html [Global Beat - Resources for the Global Journalist]
http://www.weltpolitik.net/policy-forum/article/1339.html [Welt Politik, Germany - Policy Forum on Iraq]
http://www.wadinet.de/News/archiv/iraq/nw722_network.htm [WADI e.V. - Verband für Krisenhilfe und solidarische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit/ based in Frankfurt, Germany. They reprint the entire article, including links to previous MERIA essays embedded in Marashi's own notes]
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wk9/prikbord-irak.html [ADVOCATENKANTOOR WETERINGKADE - advocacy centre in The Hague, Netherlands. Prikbord sounds painful, but I suppose it means "mailing list" in Dutch]

Mailing by Glen Rangwala, an Iraq analyst at Cambridge University.

The following page relays the entire article:

http://crisis.wakeful.net/iraqi_network.html

The following articlefrom the Asian Times, specifically mentions the essay. In fact the author, David Isenberg, bases his article on the essay, and explicitly admits that "the following description [of Saddam's security network] draws heavily from al-Marashi's article". That is about halfway through, after which he relays facts that Marashi covered.

< http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DI06Ak01.html >

Incidentally, the Isenberg article was picked up, and the bulk of it relayed, including the reference to MERIA, here:

< http://www.buzzflash.com/mediawatch/2002/09/06_wmw.html >

David Loyn of the BBC reported the story on BBC 1 lunchtime television news; about item no. 3... Showed a picture of a printout of the article, with MERIA letterhead clearly visible. That appeared after footage of Powell addressing his big meeting.

Notable quotes by Loyn:
"Powell praised the document to the skies"...
"Beefing up an academic paper and turning it into a piece of propaganda"
"intelligence sources trawling academic journals..."

Intelligence Forum < http://lists.his.com/intelforum/ >

Institute for Public Accuracy http://www.accuracy.org *ipa@accuracy.org

Globe-Intel.net http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive.php?globeintel+111

Continuing coverage:

Channel 4 - at 7pm GMT

Continuing to run with the story. Tory MP Tony Wright, chair of the Standards Committee of the House of Commons, said heads should roll. Any student who plagiarised like this would be suspended from university. How can we trust anything the government says now?

Sky News - at 8pm GMT

Defense commentator Ellie Goldsworthy said that the report read like a Ladybird book, and was old information...
Sean Boyne, another defence commentator, said some of his own work had appeared uncredited in government documents.
Sky also played an audio snippet of Marashi himself, defending his paper, regretting the plagiarism, yet saying he felt the Powell speech was convincing about the need to combat Saddam.

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