2006/06/01 by Ibrahim Al-Marashi · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Intelligence, Security, War Strategy #Intimidation #Government (linguistics) #Deception #Media studies #History #Iraq war #Middle East #Law #Political science #Criminology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1017/s0026318400049385
openalex publication_date 2006/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
In September 2002, an article I had authored, “Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis,” was published in the September 2002 issue of the journal, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) . On February 6, 2003 a UK news report revealed that entire sections of a British government dossier entitled “Iraq-Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation” were copied from three published sources, with the bulk of the plagiarized material coming from the article I had written. I was a twenty-nine year old doctoral student when the media frenzy that surrounded this incident erupted, six weeks prior to the 2003 Iraq War. I, as an Iraqi-American, had to watch as both sides opposite my hyphen waged a war against each other that I had an indirect role in justifying.