Ibrahim al-Marashi

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Doctor Ibrahim al-Marashi is an associate professor at California State University, San Marcos, researching modern Iraqi history. He holds a doctor of philosophy in history from Oxford University (2004), where his thesis was on the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait; a master's degree in political science from Georgetown University, which he had received in 1997; and a bachelor's degree in history and Near Eastern studies from the University of California Los Angeles. [1]

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He is best known as the author of an article which was plagiarised by the British government in a 2003 briefing document entitled Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation (see Dodgy Dossier). This document was a follow-up to the earlier September Dossier, both of which concerned Iraq and weapons of mass destruction and were ultimately used by the government to justify its involvement in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Large portions of al-Marashi's paper were quoted verbatim by then United States Secretary of State Colin Powell to the U.N. General Assembly.[ citation needed ]

The material plagiarised from Marashi's work and copied nearly verbatim into the "Dodgy Dossier" was six paragraphs from his article Iraq's Security & Intelligence Network: A Guide & Analysis, [2] which was published in the September 2002 issue of the Middle East Review of International Affairs . Tony Blair's office ultimately apologised to Marashi for its actions, but not to the MERIA journal. [3] [4]

Marashi is an invited lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at University of San Diego, the School of Public Health at San Diego State University, and the Department of Visual Arts at University of California San Diego worked as a visiting faculty member at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey from 2004 until 2006. Prior to this he was a research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Additionally, he had previously worked at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University on a project classifying captured Iraqi state documents. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "CNS Staff: Ibrahim Marashi". webarchive.loc.gov. Archived from the original on 2004-01-13. Retrieved 2019-03-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ↑ "IRAQ SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE". 2008-01-10. Archived from the original on 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  3. ↑ "Student whose thesis became Blair's 'dodgy dossier' accuses UK of systematic failure". The Independent. 2016-07-06. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  4. ↑ "British Government Plagiarizes MERIA Journal". 2005-10-23. Archived from the original on 2005-10-23. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
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