Il servizio segreto MI6 era già stato ridicolizzato alla notizia che buona parte del suo rapporto dedicato all’Iraq erano frutto della tesi di laurea di uno studente; ora ulteriori notizie mostrano che la fonte stessa potrebbe non essere né casuale, né obettiva:
Scritto da alessio alle 18:03It emerges that [student] Ibrahim al Marashi himself comes from a Shi’a family in Baltimore, Md. He’s never visited Iraq and is keen to see Saddam toppled by US invasion.
Marashi’s essay was published in the Middle East Review of International Affairs in Sept 2002, a scholarly magazine run by the GLORIA Center (acronym for Global Research in International Affairs Center) in Herzliya, Israel. Its director is Barry Rubin, who has also been a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy — an Israel policy think tank. Rubin is part of the coterie—which includes Daniel Pipes, Michael Ledeen, and the arch conspirator Richard Perle—who have been pressing for a US attack on Iraq.
So here we have a politically-inspired document, spliced together by a Shi’a student, published by an Israeli-based think-tank hot for war, swiped off the web by Blair’s harried minions and served up to Powell as a masterpiece of British intelligence collection from MI6.