David Rose
David Rose is a British journalist, formerly of the Observer, presently a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He has admitted to a past relationship with both MI5 and MI6, the UK’s domestic and foreign spy agencies, respectively. By his own admission, he did not end his relationship with the agencies until they did.[1] In the lead up to the Iraq war, he played what Bill Moyers called 'eager beaver' to the neoconservatives and the Iraqi National Congress's progaganda.[2]
From 9-11 to Iraq
In the immediate aftermath of 9-11, Rose wrote many articles echoing the claims of neoconservative think-tanker Laurie Mylroie. In December he published a story in Vanity Fair alleging that Iraq was involved in the September 11 attacks. His sole source was an INC defector. On the same night he appeared on CNN and NBC to repeat his allegations. He told NBC’s Chris Matthews that 9/11 was ‘a joint operation’ between Iraq and Al Qaeda. He also alleged that Iraq was training ‘a super elite special forces offensive commando’ unit of terrorists to target the United States. In the months leading up to the war Rose would produce three more reports, each progressively more fantastic, about Iraq's alleged WMDs and its links to Al Qaeda.[3]. Rose also wrote or coauthored five articles for the Observer claiming that there were 'direct Iraqi links' with the 9/11 hijackers; that 'Iraqi training, intelligence and logistics were hidden behind an Islamist facade'; that Iraq 'ran a terrorist camp for foreign Islamists, where it taught them how to hijack planes with boxcutters'; and that the anthrax attacks in the United States in October 2001 had 'an ultimate Iraqi origin'.[4] He also wrote a glowing review of what have been described as Mylroie's 'crackpot' theories.[5]
Resources
- George Monbiot, 'Our lies led us into war', 'The Guardian', 20 July 2004
References
- ↑ David Rose, ‘Spies and their Lies’, New Statesman, 27 September 2007
- ↑ Bill Moyers, 'Buying the War', PBS, 25 April 2007
- ↑ David Rose, ‘Inside Saddam's Terror Regime’, Vanity Fair, February, 2002; ‘Iraq's Arsenal of Terror’, Vanity Fair, May 2002; ‘An Inconvenient Iraq’, Vanity Fair, January 2003; ‘Baghdad's Cruel Princes’, Vanity Fair, May 2003
- ↑ David Rose and Ed Vulliamy, Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks', The Observer, 14 October 2001; David Rose, 'The Iraqi connection', The Observer, 11 November 2001; David Rose, 'The case for tough action against Iraq', The Observer, 2 December 2001; David Rose, 'A blind spot called Iraq’, The Observer, 13 January 2002; David Rose, 'Spain links suspect in 9/11 plot to Baghdad', The Observer, 16 March 2003
- ↑ David Rose, 'A blind spot called Iraq’, The Observer, 13 January 2002
