Interesting report in today's Independent

[Marvin Gandall <marvin.gandall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The most telling indictment of the case against Iraq presented by Colin
Powell and Tony Blair is the barely disguised contempt for it by their
own intelligence agencies.  Last week, the Blair government was rocked
by the revelation that its highly touted dossier on Iraqi deception ?
cited prominently by Powell in his presentation to the US ? was not the
product of British intelligence but was plagiarized from old academic
articles.

There's an interesting report in today's Independent on that issue and
on another document from British intelligence, also leaked to the BBC
last week, refuting the allegation of links between Al Qaida and the
Iraqi regime, one of the two main charges laid against Saddam Hussein by
the US and Britain. The newspaper also points to a CIA report last
summer to the Senate Intelligence Committee refuting the other more
long-standing charge ? that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction which
threaten the international community. Finally, US intelligence is also
reportedly fuming about the Bush administration?s suppression of
intelligence data showing a link between Al Qaida and the ruling royal
family in Qatar, a US ally.

You can access the report directly at the Independent site, or it's also
reproduced on www.supportingfacts.com.  



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