Dodgy Dossier

Dodgy Dossier  (propaganda)

"Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation"

On 3 February 2003, as the drums of war on Iraq were rising in tempo and volume, the British Government of Tony Blair released a document entitled "Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation". The document was claimed by the Blair government to be based on high-level British intelligence and diplomatic sources and to demonstrate that Iraq posed a serious threat to the UK. It was quoted by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on 5th February 2003. The problem was that the majority of it was a word for word copy of an article written by Ibrahim al-Marashi, a US based undergraduate and published the previous September in The Middle East Review of International Affairs MERIA . The rest was a mish-mash of plagiarisms from other openly available internet articles.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Craig Murray	“For me, the death of millions of people in the Middle East, and Alastair Campbell’s role in the deliberate manufacture of a dossier of lies to cause an aggressive war that led to those deaths, were life-changing events. It led me to pursue the end of the imperialist British state.”	Craig Murray	23 March 2019
UK/Deep state	“I testified last week to the Chilcot inquiry. My experience demonstrates an emerging and dangerous problem with the process. This is not so much a problem with Sir John Chilcot and his panel, but rather with the government bureaucracy – Britain's own "deep state" – that is covering up its mistakes and denying access to critical documents... I asked for access to all the documents I had worked on as Britain's Iraq "expert" at the UN Security Council, including intelligence assessments, records of discussions with the US, and the long paper trail on the WMD dossier. Large files were sent to me to peruse at the UK mission to the UN. However, long hours spent reviewing the files revealed that most of the key documents I had asked for were not there. I was told that specific documents, such as the records of prime minister Tony Blair's visit to Syria, could not be found. This is simply not plausible.”	Carne Ross	25 July 2010

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD	article	23 March 2019	Matt Taibbi
Document:The Death of David Kelly and the "Sexed Up" WMD Report	article	21 February 2008	Stephen Frost David Halpin Christopher Burns-Cox Paul Brandon

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