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As Dan O'H says, there don't seem to be any more inconsistencies than there are in any news story (if examined with a sufficiently powerful microscope). Morris, Norton-Taylor and Whitaker in the Guardian today point out "But even if the documents are genuine it must be remembered that the information they contain may be false. Middlemen or Iraqi intelligence officers might have used Mr Galloway as an excuse to pocket money themselves. A classic scam by intelligence officers is to explain the need for money by pointing to the demands of an innocent third party." As to Galloway being an idiot, I couldn't possibly comment. AG on 23/4/03 3:22 pm, Daniel O'Huiginn at do227@hermes.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > According to the original telegraph articles > [www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/ngall122.xml] he > went through piles of documents with a translator in situ, which seems > like the obvious way to go about it. > There may be different accounts in other media - I'd put this down to > journalistic incompetence; there are plenty of journalist who can't copy a > story without introducing mistakes > > I don't find it too likely that the documents were planted - I'm sure if > US generals wanted to discredit Galloway they could just announce > 'intelligence information' and 90% of the USA would believe them. So why > go to the trouble of forging documents, planting them, and hoping they > will be found? I've become far more willing to believe conspiracy theories > over the past few months, but I've not yet seen any convincing evidence > that this is one of them. It seems far more likely that Galloway, or > somebody acting on his behalf, was being an idiot. > > > Dan _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk