Bobert,

In your first post in this thread you say:

"But seriously, your guy uses a 12 year old college *term paper* for his justification for attacking Iraq,..."

In another you say:

"Well, danged, McGrath! The boy was readin' off a 12 year old college kid's "term paper", fir cripes sake. If I was reading off a 12 year old college kid's term paper,"

Just for clarity - it was the paper that was 12 years old. The college "kid" was a Post-Graduate Student who was writing a thesis subject to critical acedemic review - I think the appelation of "kid" is hardly appropriate.

Regarding the work itself, the paper was about the internal security services in Iraq at the time of the ending of "Desert Storm" and the means and stratagems used to conceal weapons. Source material consisted of captured Iraqi documents, transcripts of interviews of members of the Iraqi security forces and reports from UNSCOM Inspectors.

The author of the paper, who 12 years after writing it must be in his mid-thirties, said this about his paper:

1. What is stated in the paper is accurate

2. What is stated in the paper remains relevant today

3. Those using the paper, in context, have over elaborated the number of internal security organisations currently operating inside Iraq.

4. His only point of dispute is that he as author was not credited in the report as presented by the British Government.