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http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/08/43172.html

20:08 2003-02-08
           Powell™s evidence: Unbelievable and Incredible!

These were the ścredible intelligence sourcesť referred to by the US Secretary of
State, sources which he claimed were śmagnificentť and which were supposed to
lay the foundation for a war against Iraq.

The documentation in question is a nineteen-page report supplied by British
Prime Minister Tony Blair to the US administration, which had been ordered
from MI6, the British secret services for external operations, by Mr. Blair™s
advisor, Alistair Campbell.

Professor Glen Rangwala of Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom,
could hardly believe his ears when he heard Colin Powell™s speech and the
śevidenceť he was presenting. He had heard it all before, in 1991, because it was
the thesis of a student of his, Ibrahim Al-Marash, now himself a professor
working in California.

Ten of the nineteen pages of this śmagnificentť intelligence supplied by the
British had been copied, complete with spelling mistakes, from the thesis
document. The other nine pages are copied and pasted from defence magazines
readily available on the Internet, such as Jane™s Defence Weekly.

The text from the copied thesis refers to the practice of hiding weapons of mass
destruction in Mosques and private residences, much referred to in Colin
Powell™s speech to highlight what Washington understands as Iraq™s policy of
cheating the inspections.

The fact that eight European Heads of Government (Portugal, Spain, Italy,
Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, along with the United
Kingdom™s Tony Blair) signed a letter this week supporting the American
position is proof that they are wholly incompetent to be in their positions, being
more motivated by a sycophantic and servile desire to be Washington™s lackeys,
in return for spoils, than to render a serious and balanced service to their
countries.

The fact that the UK and the USA can base a causus belli, a cause for war,
knowingly, on such blatantly contrived, biased and false information is utterly
incredible. It is the governments of the United States of America and the United
Kingdom which are cheating the international community, or in the words of
George Bush, śstiffingť.

The greed for Iraq™s oil has led what used to be credible governments into a blind
quest for power, through energy, no doubt egged on by the energy lobby pulling
the strings in Washington.

That the United States of America could, at least, be so careless as to present this
case for war against Iraq based upon such pretexts to the UN Security Council is
paramount to criminal negligence, total disrespect or utter incompetence.

The world™s policeman has been caught red-handed with his fingers in the charity
box.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru


Mark Parkinson
Bodmin
Cornwall



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