[Media-watch] Weapons of mass destruction

[Mark and Andrea Priestley]

This was posted on 
Medialens today by Free Spirit
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Hi to all on 
medialens... I'm working with a group of US / Canadian activists from 
www.democraticunderground.com in an attempt to publicise a highly detailed 
critique of US & UK accusations concerning Iraq's WMD. We hope to gain press 
coverage of this report to discredit the US/UK assertion that Iraq is in 
material breach of 1441, thereby removing their major stated rationale for war. 
The current strategy is to target UK journalists and MP's on the basis that they 
are generally more sympathetic, and Blair is facing strong revolts as it is. 
I'd appreciate it if anyone with good media links, or links with 
politicians etc. could join this effort to get the contents of this dossier into 
the public domain. This critique is compiled by Dr Glen Rangwala, the 
Cambridge academic who was responsible for exposing Tony Blair’s much vaunted 
intelligence dossier as a plagiarised version of an old PHD report. All 
the information in the report has been compiled from reputable sources (with 
direct links to the source), mostly UN reports and weapons inspectors reports, 
and is structured in such a way as to directly disprove / discredit specific 
allegations made by the US & UK in the last 6 months. This document 
has the potential to seriously discredit the US/Uk arguements on WMD, seriously 
questioning the evidence that Iraq is in material breach of UN resolution 1441, 
and thereby seriously eroding the current justification for war. It 
should be noted that the document doesn't actually contain new information as 
such, what it does is to collate all the US/UK allegations in one space together 
with detailed rebuttals of these assertions sourced mainly from official UN and 
weapons inspectors reports. IMO it is a highly valuable resource for anyone 
attempting to discredit the WMD arguement, and hopefully if it can be spread 
widely enough the media will have to pick up on it. The dossier can be 
found here http://www.middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweapons.html 
one of several threads on democraticunderground is here 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID66/3099.html 
and the Urban 75 thread relating to this is here 
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35378&am 
p;perpage=25&pagenumber=1 The DU people are currently emailing all 
UK anti-war MP's, and have been talking with a uk journalist (though i'm not 
sure who, or whether this will result in anything). Basically if anyone can help 
get this out into the public domain IMO it has the potential to seriously blow 
up in the media this week, throwing a major spanner in the works of the US/UK 
push to legitimise war. all comments appreciated, and media savvy input 
is particularly needed. 
I am not affiliated to the author of this report btw, just believe it 
deserves a much wider 
audience.fs
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Mark and Andrea 
Priestley
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