REAL AUTHORS OF IRAQ DOSSIER BLAST BLAIR

REAL AUTHORS OF IRAQ DOSSIER BLAST BLAIR


Feb 8 2003


Exclusive By Gary Jones And Alexandra Williams In Los Angeles

JOURNALIST Sean Boyne and student Ibrahim al-Marashi have attacked Tony Bla=
ir for using their reports to call for war against Iraq.

Mr Boyne, who works for military magazine Jane's Intelligence Review, said =
he was shocked his work had been used in the Government's dossier.

Articles he wrote in 1997 were plagiarised for a 19-page intelligence docum=
ent entitled Iraq: Its Infrastructure Of Concealment, Deception And Intimid=
ation to add weight to the PM's warmongering.

He said: "I don't like to think that anything I wrote has been used for an =
argument for war. I am concerned because I am against the war."

The other main source was a thesis by post-graduate student, Ibrahim al-Mar=
ashi, the US-born son of Iraqis, who lives in California. His research was =
partly based on documents seized in the 1991 Gulf War.

He said: "This is wholesale deception. How can the British public trust the=
Government if it is up to these sort of tricks? People will treat any othe=
r information they publish with a lot of scepticism from now on."
REAL AUTHORS OF IRAQ DOSSIER BLAST BLAIR

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