Glen Rangwala is a University Lecturer and fellow of

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. Trained in

political theory Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and legitimacy of political institutions, such as states. This field investigates different forms of government, ranging from d ...

and

international law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

, he completed a

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on political and legal rhetoric in the

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. His academic work focuses on

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politics from 1967 to 1977, and the rhetorical relations between the

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resident population and the leadership of the Palestinian resistance movement in exile. He has co-written a monograph, ''Iraq in Fragments'' (Cornell University Press, 2006), on the fragmentation of the Iraqi polity following the invasion of 2003. He has also published on

international humanitarian law International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict or the laws of war, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (''wikt:jus in bello, jus in bello''). It is a branch of international law that seeks to limit ...

, comparative

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law,

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

and

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. He is a member of the Labour Party and an editor of

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. He is involved with Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (dissolved and replaced by Cambridge Solidarity with Iraq in October 2003) and Arab Media Watch. In the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war Rangwala wrote articles in newspapers and appeared on British TV, especially in the context of the "

dodgy dossier ''Iraq – Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation'' (more commonly known as the ''Iraq Dossier'', the ''February Dossier'' From pages 35–42 o"The Decision to go to War in Iraq: Ninth Report of Session 2002–03" (PDF). or ...

" prepared by

Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader ...

's government. Rangwala had discovered that this dossier was mostly

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from a postgraduate student's thesi

and articles in

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(with minor falsifications

and traced back the people who had edited the dossie

He submitted written evidence to the British House of Commons, House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs when it investigated the British government's information policy leading to the Iraq wa

He has since published a number of articles on the Iraq war, especially in

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Together with

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, he contributed an article to ''A Case to Answer'', a report commissioned by MP

Adam Price Adam Robert Price (born 23 September 1968) is a Welsh politician who served as Leader of Plaid Cymru from September 2018 to May 2023. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 2016, having previously been ...

on which

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procedures against Tony Blair are based. The report assembles evidence that Blair misled the British Parliament and people over reasons for the 2003 war on Iraq mainly from the PM's own statements and evidence disclosed by the

Hutton Inquiry The Hutton Inquiry was a 2003 judicial inquiry in the UK chaired by Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the Labour Party (UK), Labour government to investigate the controversial circumstances surrounding the death of Dav ...

and the Butler Report.

External links

Cambridge university site
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20040615032928/http://www.iraqpolicy.org.uk/ IraqPolicy.org.uk(This URL no longer works, but its content can still be found on the

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.)
Campaign Against Sanctions on IraqArab Media WatchA Case to Answer
(link to PDF file) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rangwala, Glen Living people Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge British political scientists Dawoodi Bohras British Ismailis Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at Hymers College