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To David T Johnson, Acting ambassador, US Embassy, London
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Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:46:12 GMT
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From the pages of the Guardian...
Dear Mr Johnson,
On November 26, your press counsellor sent a letter to the Guardian taking
strong exception to a sentence in my column of the same day. The sentence read:
“In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi surrogates are no longer bothering to
conceal attacks on civilian targets and are openly eliminating anyone -
doctors, clerics, journalists - who dares to count the bodies.” Of particular
concern was the word “eliminating”.
The letter suggested that my charge was “baseless” and asked the Guardian either
to withdraw it, or provide “evidence of this extremely grave accusation”. It is
quite rare for US embassy officials to openly involve themselves in the free
press of a foreign country, so I took the letter extremely seriously. But while
I agree that the accusation is grave, I have no intention of withdrawing it.
Here, instead, is the evidence you requested...
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