Guardian: In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead

[Dirk39]

In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead
by Naomi Klein

"You asked for my evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here it is
In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead

Naomi Klein, Saturday December 4, 2004, The Guardian





David T Johnson, Acting ambassador,

US Embassy, London



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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http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KLE412A.html

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[bemildred]

1. Hi Dirk, this has been posted here a bit.

So don't feel bad if it doesn't start a firestorm.
:hi:

[Dirk39]

6. Thanx,

I expected it to be posted here, but I couldn't find it.
Do you have a link to the discussion here at DU?

Hi,
Dirk

[bemildred]

8. Search turns up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2786620
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=89822
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=89777

Might be some others, it was popular.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Globalresearch not available.... n/t

[bemildred]

3. Just worked for me. nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Hmmmmmm.... that is good... must be a

windows thing... even though I am running Mandrake... some servers betwixed here and yon could be running broken software....

[bemildred]

5. I use Mozilla on FreeBSD. nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Still can't reach it from way down south.... curious. n/t

[bemildred]

9. Dunno. Seems straightforward.

Did you try to main site:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

FWIW, I get much less of this sort of annoyance since I
switched to Mozilla (from Netscape, I refuse to use IE.)