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>>>> http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/020603_plagiarized.html  
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>>>> Britain's Intelligence Dossier on Iraq
 >>>> was Plagiarized from a Grad Student
>>>>
>>>>       by Michael C. Ruppert
>>>>
>>>>Feb. 6, 2003, 2230 hrs, PST, (FTW) - A story is sweeping the
>>>>world tonight and it says a great deal about those who are
>>>>forcing the world into a war it does not want. The famed dossier
>>>>presented by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his Parliament
>>>>was plagiarized from two articles and a September 2002 research
>>>>paper submitted by a graduate student. Worse, the Iraq described
>>>>by the graduate student is not the Iraq of 2003 but the Iraq of
>>>>1991. So glaring was the theft of intellectual property that the
>>>>official British document even cut and pasted whole verbatim
>>>>segments of the research paper, including grammatical errors, and
>>>>presented the findings as the result of intense work by British
>>>>intelligence services.
>>>>
>>>>U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell both praised and quoted that
>>>>same British report in his presentation at the United Nations
>>>>yesterday.
>>>>
>>>>It is important that readers see and understand the enormity of
>>>>this violation of public trust for themselves. The story was
>>>>first broken by Britain's Channel 4 today and it is appearing in
>>>more papers and web sites by the hour. The following links lead
>>>>directly to the Channel 4 story, to the British "intelligence"
>>>>report and to the original student paper.
>>>>
>>>>What was also disclosed was that certain portions of the academic

>>>>report were altered by the PM Tony Blair to make them more
>>>>inflammatory. In one cited instance Blair changed "aiding
>>>>opposition groups" to "supporting terrorists."
>>>>
>>>>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  

>>>>
>>>> In the context of merely preventing or slowing a war with Iraq
>>>>this would be earth shattering news. But in a world that is
>>>>slowly beginning to feel the pressure of and admit the reality of
>>>>dwindling global oil supplies the fallout from the story may
>>>>actually accelerate hostilities. British Prime Minister Tony
>>>>Blair will be, by tomorrow, facing monumental challenges in both
>>>>Parliament and from British public opinion that is overwhelmingly
>>>>opposed to an Iraqi invasion. The event could be enough to topple
>>>>his government and cause new elections which might well result in
>>>>a new government that is not mind-melded with the Bush
>>>>administration.
>>>>
>>>>The Bush administration, faced with its own embarrassment over
>>>>the issue, cannot wage a successful war without England. The
>>>>first thought that came to my mind when I saw the story was that
>>>>George W. Bush must pre-empt this story and make it moot to save
>>>>not only Blair but himself as well. The only way to do that is to
>>>>have the war begin before the justified outrage of the electorate
>>>>which has been treated with utter contempt can make itself felt.

>>>>
>>>>I noticed tonight that the Associated Press and Yahoo news had
>>>>reported that the 101st Air Assault Division based at Ft.
>>>>Campbell, Kentucky - the Army's premier "door kickers" - had been
>>>>given their deployment orders for the Gulf this afternoon. As I
>>>>have previously reported, the 101st, along with units like the
>>>>75th Rangers can be deployed and operational within 96 hours,
>>>>anywhere in the world. When the 101st heads out you know the war
>>>>is going to start very soon.
>>>>
>>>>These are incredibly dangerous times, made more so because there
>>>>is no turning back for the Bush administration. This story is
>>>>incredible proof of the cynicism, dishonesty and callousness of
>>>>the tyrants pushing the world toward destruction. And Iraq is
>>>>merely the first stop on a sequential plan for control of the
>>>>last remaining oil reserves on the planet. I encourage all who
>>>>read the information contained in these links to spread it far
>>>>and wide and also, by whatever means at their disposal, to tell
>>>>the mainstream press, members of congress and the White House
>>>>itself that we will not follow; we will not obey; and we will not
>>>>kill on the orders of those who lie to us and who demonstrate the
>>>>integrity of thieves and intellectual cowards.
>>>>
>>>>This might be our last chance before the bombs start falling,
>>>>before young American men and many innocent Iraqi civilians are
>>>>reduced to blood and ash.
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