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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (133935)	5/22/2004 6:35:15 PM
From: XBrit	Respond to of 281500

I'm sorry, the Guardian story still holds together better than the US military's claims. For the Guardian story to be fake, I believe the reporter (Rory McCarthy) would have had to actively fabricate it. I don't think any major-newspaper journalist in his right mind would deliberately throw away his career with a fiction that huge. Provided the reporter himself is not totally fabricating, there are too many independent witness accounts and clear, specific and consistent details in the Guardian story for it to be fabricated by a Sunni conspiracy. The US military, on the other hand... they found all that stuff and never mentioned it in their previous press conference? Gimme a break. More likely they yanked it out of the property room in Baghdad and made up the details. And saying the wagon of corpses wasn't in the same terrain as the village... well um they were in that wagon for transportation to Ramadi, and the pics could I suppose have been taken anywhere on a 250-mile journey. My impression is this is a big-lie cover-up ordered from Washington because the real atrocity would be so damaging to the US political/moral position that they can't dare let it stand. Also, we've established real clearly that the US military has digital cameras. Where's the photographic record to support the US military's view? Not catalog pictures of military binoculars but the videos taken by the ground troops? I mean, I may be wrong an all, but it really looks this way to me. guardian.co.uk