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This article appeared in the April 14, 2003 edition of The Nation.

March 26, 2003

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THE INTELLIGENCE SOURCE SPEAKS

Oxford, England

When people have asked me whether I am angry that 10 Downing Street plagiarized my article in the September issue of Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), my answer has been "no." What has angered me is when people like Alexander Cockburn in his March 3 "Beat the Devil" column, "The Great 'Intelligence' Fraud," have criticized the UK dossier because it came from my article, which in his words was "spliced together" by a student like myself. First of all, the article took me three months to write and was by no means "spliced."

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