David Rose
David Rose is a British investigative journalist, formerly of the Observer, presently a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. In the run-up to the Iraq war, he wrote several credulous reports echoing neoconservative claims about Iraq's alleged WMDs and links to Al Qaeda. His main source was the Iraqi National Congress.[1]. He has since admitted that he was 'bamboozled' by the INC,[2] and also co-authored one highly critical investigation of the events leading up to war.[3] However, he combined his mea culpa with an attack on the two Pentagon whistleblowers who brought public attention to the neoconservative machinations.[4]
Beyond Iraq, Rose has a reputation for critical investigative work. In April 2008 he wrote a damning report about US-backed attempts to engineer a coup against the elected Hamas government in Gaza.[5] He has also written about the British intelligence services' use of clandestine 'deniable briefings' to plant disinformation in the press, admitting and reflecting upon his own 'secret life' role in receiving such leaks over the years until the agencies abruptly ended this relationship.[6] In 2009 he authored a critical investigation about MI5's collusion in the torture of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed after he was sent to Morocco in of CIA's 'extraordinary renditions'.[7] He believes MI5 ended contact with him over this. [8]
Contents
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.[9]. 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'.[10] He also wrote a glowing review of Mylroie's book in which she elaborates on Iraq's alleged links to terrorism.[11]
Publications and Resources
Publications
Books
Journalism
1980s
- Richard Norton-Taylor and David Rose, 'PM adviser in smear campaign', Guardian, 14 December 1989
1990s
2000s
- 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
Resources
- George Monbiot, 'Our lies led us into war', The Guardian, 20 July 2004
References
- ↑ Bill Moyers, 'Buying the War', PBS, 25 April 2007
- ↑ David Rose, Iraqi defectors tricked us with WMD lies, but we must not be fooled again, The Observer, 30 May 2004
- ↑ Bryan Burrough, Evgenia Peretz, David Rose, and David Wise, ‘The Path to War: The Rush to Invade Iraq — The Ultimate Inside Account’, Vanity Fair, May 2004
- ↑ David Rose, Iraqi defectors tricked us with WMD lies, but we must not be fooled again, The Observer, 30 May 2004
- ↑ David Rose, The Gaza Bombshell, Vanity Fair, April 2008
- ↑ David Rose, ‘Spies and their Lies’, New Statesman, 27 September 2007
- ↑ David Rose, How MI5 colluded in my torture: Binyam Mohamed claims British agents fed Moroccan torturers their questions, Mail on Sunday, 8 March 2009
- ↑ David Rose, ‘Spies and their Lies’, New Statesman, 27 September 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
