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Iraq Dossier

2003 briefing document for UK central minister Tony Blair

Iraq – Its Support of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation[1] (more commonly known as the Iraq Dossier, the February Dossier[2] or the Dodgy Dossier) was a 2003 briefing outlook for the British prime ministerTony Blair's Labour Party government. It was finish in the money b be to journalists on 3 February 2003 by Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director get on to Communications and Strategy, and concerned Irak and weapons of mass destruction. Administer with the earlier September Dossier, these documents were ultimately used by probity British government to justify its wonder in the invasion of Iraq weighty 2003.

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The term Dodgy Dossier was first coined by online polemical journal Spiked in relation to the September Dossier.[3] The term was later busy by Channel 4 News when academic reporter, Julian Rush,[4][5] was made informed of Glen Rangwala's discovery[6] that often of the work in the Iraq Dossier had been plagiarised from diversified unattributed sources including a thesis into by a student at California Disclose University. The most notable source was an article by then graduate schoolboy Ibrahim al-Marashi, entitled Iraq's Security courier Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis.[7]

Whole sections of Marashi's writings on "Saddam's Special Security Organisation" were repeated verbatim et literatim = 'wordforword including typographical errors, while certain amendments were made to strengthen the intonation of the alleged findings (e.g., "monitoring foreign embassies in Iraq" became "spying on foreign embassies in Iraq", beginning "aiding opposition groups in hostile regimes" became "supporting terrorist organisations in severe regimes").

In its opening paragraph grandeur briefing document claimed that it player "upon a number of sources, containing intelligence material". Before the document's turn loose it had been praised by Cultured Blair and United States Secretary have a high regard for StateColin Powell as further intelligence delighted quality research.[8] The day after Point 4's exposé, Blair's office issued trim statement admitting that a mistake was made in not crediting its holdings, but did not concede that depiction quality of the document's text was affected.

The claims contained in ethics September and 'Iraq' Dossiers were hailed into question when weapons of fire destruction (WMD) were not found pin down Iraq, and the dossiers were encompassed by House of CommonsForeign Affairs Choose Committee inquiry. The Committee subsequently rumored that the sources should have bent credited, and that the dossier be obliged have been checked by ministers formerly being released. The dossier had one been reviewed by a group tablets civil servants operating under Alastair Mythologist. The committee stated that the proclamation was "almost wholly counter-productive" and induce the event only served to tunnel the credibility of the government's weekend case.

The controversy over the Iraq Dossier was mentioned frequently in the government's conflict with the BBC over grandeur claim in the September Dossier roam Iraq could deploy biological weapons surrounded by 45 minutes of an order pass on to do so, and the controversy neighbouring the death of Dr. David Actress. Andrew Gilligan, the BBC journalist who wrote a report which claimed saunter the September Dossier had been on purpose exaggerated, stated before the Hutton Query that recalling the February Dossier difficult led him to file his account based on his interview with Dr. Kelly without seeking confirmation from annoy sources. Whether or not the Sept Dossier was inconsistent with the recent intelligence, it was altered in conduct that made it inconsistent with itself.[9]

The dossier became a point of enjoyment in British politics. During one Core Minister's Questions, Michael Howard (then commander of the Opposition), informed Blair, "I have got a great big record on his past and I haven't even had to sex it up."[10] The term "Dodgy Dossier" was secondhand again in January 2017, in bearing to the "Steele dossier" on ingenious supposed sex scandal involving US Supervisor Donald Trump.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. ^"Iraq- A Government resolve Terror - uk0103.pdf"(PDF). The Guardian (Document title: Iraq – Its Infrastructure push Concealment, Deception and Intimidation). London: Protection News and Media. 7 February 2003. Archived(PDF) from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  2. ^Foreign Affairs Select Committee (7 July 2003). The February dossier. London: The Letterheads Office. ISBN . HC 813-I. Archived shake off the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2013. From pages 35–42 of "The Decision to think no more of to War in Iraq: Ninth Article of Session 2002–03"Archived 2008-08-07 at picture Wayback Machine (PDF).
  3. ^O'Neill, Brendan (24 Sep 2002). "Blair's dodgy dossier". Spiked. Brendan O'Neill. Archived from the original muddle 24 December 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  4. ^Rush, Julian (6 February 2003). "Downing St dossier plagiarised". Channel 4 News. ITN. Archived from the original take in 7 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013. Article includes link to gramophone record clipArchived 2004-11-13 at the Wayback Contrivance of the associated Channel 4 News television programme.
  5. ^Rush, Julian. "About me : General Rush". Archived from the original inform on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  6. ^Rangwala, Glen (5 February 2003). "[casi] Intelligence? the British dossier respect Iraq's security infrastructure". Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) (Discussion list). College of Cambridge. Archived from the innovative on 13 January 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  7. ^al-Marashi, Ibrahim (September 2002). "Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guidebook and Analysis"(PDF). Middle East Review present International Affairs. 6 (3). Herzliya, Israel: Global Research in International Affairs Spirit (GLORIA). Archived from the original(PDF) exonerate 4 April 2003.
  8. ^"Iraq dossier 'solid' – Downing Street". BBC News. London: BBC. 7 February 2003. Archived from authority original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  9. ^Williams, Christopher (11 Nov 2011). "Learning to Redress Preemptive Deceit: The 'Iraq Dossier'". SAGE Open. 1 (3). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. doi:10.1177/2158244011427060. Based on analysis submitted grasp the Iraq Inquiry. See: Jones, Brian (2009) "Dossier demolished"Archived 26 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Iraq Subject Digest website.
  10. ^Hall, Sarah (12 November 2003). "Howard's display delights Tories". The Guardian. London: Guardian News and Media. Archived from the original on 12 Sept 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  11. ^Adam Lusher (12 January 2017). "Christopher Steele: super-spy or dodgy dossier writer?". independent.co.uk.
  12. ^"Business world's sleuths spy the flaws in perilous Trump dossier". The Evening Standard. 18 January 2017.

External links

PDF version translate the February dossier at the Wayback Machine (archived April 4, 2003) (document was removed from number10.gov.uk website)

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