 Sean Boyne and student Ibrahim al-Marashi have attacked Tony Blair for using their reports to call for war against Iraq.
Mr Boyne, who works for military magazine Jane's Intelligence Review. Articles he wrote in 1997 were plagiarized for a 19-page intelligence document to add weight to the PM's warmongering. He said: "I don't like to think that anything I wrote has been used for an argument for war. I am concerned because I am against the war." The other main source was a thesis by post-graduate student, Ibrahim al-Marashi's research partly based on documents seized in the 1991 Gulf War, including typing and grammatical errors. After the dossier's origins were revealed, Mr Blair was accused. The fiasco has deeply damaged his attempts to win backing for military action. And Labour MP Glenda Jackson said: "It is another example of how the Government is attempting to mislead the country and Parliament. The PM's official spokesman rejected Ms Jackson's claims but admitted it had been a mistake not to acknowledge Mr al-Marashi's thesis in the dossier. He added: "The fact we used some of his work doesn't throw into question the accuracy of the document as a whole. This document is solid." The dossier had been praised by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in his speech to the UN Security Council. (Agencies) | 英国首相布莱尔近日受到了记者肖恩·博伊恩和研究生伊伯拉希姆·阿里·马拉什的指责，他们对自己的论文被抄袭并用来号召挑起对伊拉克的战争表示强烈的不满。 肖恩·博伊恩是军事杂志《简氏军事评论》的记者，他在1997年写的文章经过政府的"一番取舍"，竟摇身一变出现在了一份长达19页的政府文件中，为首相布莱尔的战争主张摇旗呐喊。  | | 29岁的研究生伊伯拉希姆·阿里·马拉什 |
博伊恩说："我不愿意看到自己的东西被用来为战争推波助澜，我是反对战争的。" 而这份政府文件的另一个主要来源是研究生伊伯拉希姆·阿里·马拉什根据1991年海湾战争的文件写成的一篇论文，连其中的拼写和语法错误都原封不动地被照搬了上去。 抄袭事件被披露后，首相布莱尔的日子自然不那么好过了，之前他为争取对伊拉克采取军事行动的支持而作诸多的努力，现在效果也大打折扣。 工党议员格伦德·杰克逊对此评价说："这是另一例绝好的证明，说明了政府是如何试图误导整个国家和议会的。" 首相发言人则表示不同意杰克逊的观点，但他承认没有在文件中指明出处是一个错误。但他又说："我们在文件中引用他（伊伯拉希姆·阿里·马拉什）的文章并没有使文件的准确性受影响。文件的论据是十分充足的。" 据悉，美国国务卿鲍威尔在联合国安理会上发言时，还对英国政府的这份报告赞扬有加呢。 （中国日报网站译） |
Updated: 2003-02-10 01:00
