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英の対イラク機密文書、院生論文引き写し？英ＴＶ報道 ［朝日新聞］
2003 年 2 月 07 日
英テレビ「チャンネル４」は６日、英政府が公表したイラクの大量破壊兵器開発に関する「機密文書」は、米大学院生が軍事専門誌に発表していた論文などの内容を引き写したものだった、と伝えた。同文書は、パウエル米国務長官が５日に国連安全保障理事会で行った報告の中でも触れられていた。
文書は「イラクの隠匿、虚偽、脅迫の組織」と題して英情報機関ＭＩ６が作成、１月に公表された。情報源は明らかに記されていないが、ケンブリッジ大学の研究者らの調査結果によると、米カリフォルニア大の大学院生イブラヒム・マラシ氏が湾岸戦争当時の情報を基に発表した論文など、雑誌上に公開された３論文と極めて似た記述が多数あったという。
中には論文のつづりや文法の間違いもそのまま丸写しになった部分もあった。ロイター通信によると、英政府報道官は報道に対し、「文書の内容は正確だ」としたうえで「政府は諜報（ちょうほう）活動によってのみ情報を集めているわけではない」と話した。
02/07 10:58 英「機密文書」は丸写し 米院生の雑誌論文から
ロンドン７日共同】英政府が対イラク軍事行動を正当化するた
めこのほど発表し、パウエル米国務長官も先の国連安全保障理事会
報告で触れた英情報機関の「機密文書」が、湾岸戦争時の古い情報
を元に米大学院生が書いた雑誌論文や軍事専門誌などからの三論文
の引き写しだったことがわかった。
六日夜の英チャンネル４テレビが英ケンブリッジ大学の研究者ら
の調査結果として報じた。それによると、「イラクの隠匿、虚偽、
脅迫の組織」と題した十九ページの文書の六ページ目から十六ペー
ジ目までのほとんどは、米カリフォルニア州の大学院生イブラヒム
・マラシ氏が十二年前の情報を元に中東情勢専門誌に発表した論文
のコピーで、つづりや文法の間違いまで丸写しだった。
「言語道断だ」（軍事専門家）などと強い批判の声が上がってい
る。
英首相府報道官は、情報機関の秘密情報だけでなく「その他の情
報源」にも基づくと断っており「著作権は主張していない」と述べ
゛盗作″を否定、「正確だと信じている」と言い張った。しかし論
文の引き写し疑惑は否定しなかった。
この「機密文書」は、元の論文がイラク治安機関について「敵対
政権の反対勢力を援助」と記したのを「テロ組織を支援」に、また
「外国大使館の監視」を「外国大使館をスパイ」とするなど、挑発
的な表現に誇張して書き換えてあったという。
（了） ０３０２０７ １０５８
[2003-02-07-10:58]
英の証拠文書は学生の論文盗用、首相府が認める ［読売新聞］
【ロンドン＝渡辺覚】イラクが国際テロ組織を支援していたことなどを立証する目的で、英首相府が３日に公表した政府文書が、米国の大学院生が書いた雑誌論文や軍事専門誌などの「引き写し」だったことが７日わかった。
問題になっているのは、「イラクの隠匿、虚偽、脅迫の基盤」と題する１９ページの文書で、英首相府のホームページにも掲載された。「英情報機関などの情報」を基に、フセイン政権の情報組織の概要をまとめ、イラクの治安機関が外国のテロ組織支援や外国大使館の秘密情報の入手に動いている――などと記している。
ところが、英民放テレビ「チャンネル４」が６日、政府文書の大半は、米国の大学院生らが湾岸戦争時の資料をもとに中東情勢専門誌に昨年発表した論文などを大幅に引用したものと指摘。文法やスペルの間違いまで丸写しだったと非難した。
英首相府は当初、「問題はない」と“盗用”を否定していたが、首相府報道官は７日、「情報のどの部分が引用だったか出所を明示するべきだった」と引用方法が不適切だったことを認めた。
(2月8日12:51)
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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=147782003
Thu 6 Feb 2003
Experts scorn Saddam link to
al-Qaeda
GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN
AN EXPERT on international terrorism
yesterday
backed the findings of a British
intelligence
report which concluded that there
was no
evidence to show Iraq was supporting
al-Qaeda.
The government’s Defence Intelligence
Staff
Agency report said that while
there could
have been a relationship between
the two
in the past, any fledgling relationship
foundered
due to mistrust and incompatible
ideology.
The conclusion contradicted the
government’s
assertion that Saddam Hussein’s
regime was
supporting al-Qaeda, the terrorist
organisation
blamed for the 11 September attacks
on New
York.
And it was backed by Rohan Gunaratna,
a researcher
on terrorism and political violence
at St
Andrews University, who said
that there had
never been any suggestion that
Iraq had offered
support to al-Qaeda.
"I have examined many thousands
of documents
from Afghanistan I could not
find any links
whatsoever with Osama bin Laden
or al-Qaeda,"
he said.
"If there are links, they
should prove
it. They have an enormous intelligence
budget
, they have interviewed more
than 1,000 al-Qaeda
suspects, they have examined
thousands of
documents, and they have found
nothing.
"That does not mean Saddam
Hussein is
a good man," he added. "He
has
sponsored so many terrorist groups,
but if
there are links, they should
prove it."
Despite the report, which was
written within
the last three weeks and leaked
to the BBC,
Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary,
yesterday
insisted that Iraq did allow
a "permissive
environment" in which al-Qaeda
was able
to operate. He said that intelligence
reports
showed there had been links between
al-Qaeda
and "various people"
in Iraq.
Mr Straw added the government
stood by comments
made by Tony Blair in the Commons
that there
were links between Iraq and al-Qaeda,
although
the extent was unclear.
"What we see in terms of
intelligence
is that the Iraqi regime appears
to be allowing
a permissive environment in which
al-Qaeda
is able to operate," he
said. "Certainly,
we have seen links between al-Qaeda
and various
people in Iraq. What we don’t
know - and
the Prime Minister and I have
made this very
clear - is the extent of those
links.
"What we also know, however,
is that
the Iraqi regime have been up
to their necks
in support of terrorism generally
as long
as they have been there."
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http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20030206/dossier.html#1
Downing St dossier plagiarised
Iraq
Published: 6 February 2003
Reporter: Julian Rush
The government's carefully co-ordinated
propaganda
offensive has taken an embarrassing
hit after
Downing Street was accused of
plagiarism.
Read sample of plagiarised text
Read Downing Street's admission
Read the Saddam Hussien Interview
- world
exclusive
The target is an intelligence
dossier released
on Monday and heralded by none
other than
Colin Powell at the UN as "exquisite."
Channel Four News has learnt
that the bulk
of the nineteen page document
was copied
from three different articles
- one written
by a graduate student.
On Monday, the day before the
US Secretary
of State, Colin Powell addressed
the UN,
Downing Street published its
latest paper
on Iraq.
It gives the impression of being
an up to
the minute intelligence-based
analysis -
and Mr Powell was fulsome in
his praise.
Published on the Number 10 web
site, called
"Iraq - Its Infrastructure
of Concealment
Deception and Intimidation",
it outlines
the structure of Saddam's intelligence
organisations.
But it made familiar reading
to Cambridge
academic Glen Rangwala. It was
copied from
an article last September in
a small journal:
the Middle East Review of International
Affairs.
It's author, Ibrahim al-Marashi,
a postgraduate
student from Monterey in California.
Large
sections do indeed appear, verbatim.
A section, for example, six paragraphs
long,
on Saddam's Special Security
Organisation,
the exact same words are in the
Californian
student's paper.
In several places Downing Street
edits the
originals to make more sinister
reading.
Number 10 says the Mukhabarat
- the main
intelligence agency - is "spying
on
foreign embassies in Iraq".
The original reads: "monitoring
foreign
embassies in Iraq."
And the provocative role of "supporting
terrorist organisations in hostile
regimes"
has a weaker, political context
in the original:
"aiding opposition groups
in hostile
regimes."
Even typographic mistakes in
the original
articles are repeated.
Of military intelligence, al-Marashi
writes
in his original paper:
"The head of military intelligence
generally
did not have to be a relative
of Saddam's
immediate family, nor a Tikriti.
Saddam appointed,
Sabir Abd Al-Aziz Al-Duri as
head..."
Note the comma after appointed.
Downing Street paraphrases the
first sentence:
"Saddam appointed, Sabir
'Abd al-'Aziz
al-Duri as head during the 1991
Gulf War."
This second line is cut and pasted,
complete
with the same grammatical error.
plagiarism is regarded as intellectual
theft.
Downing Street admission
It took them nearly 24 hours,
but Downing
Street was eventually forced
to admit it
made a mistake.
A spokesman confessed that it
should have
credited the authors of the articles
it used
in the document, particularly
Ibrahim Al
Marashi - he's the graduate student
whose
thesis was copied -- grammatical
errors and
all.
'We all have lessons to learn',
was the word
from Number Ten on this embarrassing
affair
- revealed exclusively on Channel
4 News.
Tony Blair refused all questions
about the
dodgy dossier as he opened a
community centre
in Hartlepool. But he's on a
relentless campaign
to win support for his policy
on Iraq and
this is the last thing he needed.
Back in Downing street his official
spokesman
admitted mistakes had been made.
" .. in retrospect we should
have acknowledged
that ... parts of that were based
on Dr Al-Marashi's
work."
" does not throw into question
the accuracy
of the document as a whole..."
"we all have lessons to
learn from this..."
The revelation that great chunks
of this
dossier were simply lifted from
a Californian's
post graduate thesis won't do
much to build
up confidence in the government
at a time
when it desperately needs to
build up trust.
And it probably won't do much
to build up
trust when people discover that
some of those
working on this report were not
the Iraqi
experts at the Foreign office
or MI6 but
Downing street staffers, including
those
that work in Alastair Campbell's
department
of communications in No.12 Downing
street.
Among the four names credited
with working
on the document is Alastair Campbell's
own
personal assistant Alison Blackshaw,
a junior
No.10 press officer Murtarza
Khan, one other
No.10 official and a foreign
office official.
Unaware that it was a straight
lift from
a PHD thesis both Tony Blair
and US Secretary
of State Colin Powell this week
paraded the
dossier as quality research and
a searing
indictment of Saddam's regime.
This saga is already being pointed
to as
further evidence that the government's
communications
efforts are out of control. An
inquiry into
government media relations begins
its work
next week, and now added to its
in tray is
just how a government dossier
on Iraq turned
into such a propaganda own goal.
Sample text
Government dossier: (page 13),
published
Jan 2003
"Saddam appointed, Sabir
'Abd al-'Aziz
al-Duri as head during the 1991
Gulf War.
After the Gulf War he was replaced
by Wafiq
Jasim al-Samarrai.
After Samarrai, Muhammad Nimah
al-Tikriti
headed Al-Istikhbarat al-Askariyya
in early
1992 then in late 1992 Fanar
Zibin Hassan
al-Tikriti was appointed to this
post.
These shifting appointments are
part of Saddam's
policy of balancing security
positions. By
constantly shifting the directors
of these
agencies, no one can establish
a base in
a security organisation for a
substantial
period of time. No one becomes
powerful enough
to challenge the President."
al-Marashi document: (section:
"MILITARY
INTELLIGENCE", published
sept 2002 -
relevant parts have been underlined
Saddam appointed, Sabir ‘Abd
al-‘Aziz al-Duri(80)
as head of Military Intelligence
during the
1991 Gulf War.(81) After the
Gulf War he
was replaced by Wafiq Jasim al-Samarrai.(82)
After Samarrai, Muhammad Nimah
al-Tikriti(83)
headed Military Intelligence
in early 1992(84)
then in late 1992 Fanar Zibin
Hassan al-Tikriti
was appointed to this post.(85)
While Fanar
is from Tikrit, both Sabir al-Duri
and Samarrai
are non-Tikriti Sunni Muslims,
as their last
names suggest.
Another source indicates that
Samarrai was
replaced by Khalid Salih al-Juburi,(86)
demonstrating
how another non-Tikriti, but
from the tribal
alliance that traditionally support
the regime
holds top security positions
in Iraq.(87)
These shifting appointments are
part of Saddam’s
policy of balancing security
positions between
Tikritis and non-Tikritis, in
the belief
that the two factions would not
unite to
overthrow him. Not only that,
but by constantly
shifting the directors of these
agencies,
no one can establish a base in
a security
organization for a substantial
period of
time, that would challenge the
President.(88)
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