email from ALEX THOMSON ABOUT MASSACRE IN FALLUJHA

[Linda]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/1516227

ALEX THOMSON WROTE

Sorry Linda - this film is nothing of the sort. Watch it carefully and you will find not one single shred of hard evidence about the use of this material in Fallujah. Secondhand stories from one former soldier doesn't cut it -- this man did not actually see anything - he's not even a direct eye-witness. The use of stills of bodies in this so-called documentary is misleading in the extreme and frankly irresponsible.

The interviews with people like Alice Mahon are leading are little more than third-rate propaganda.

The final sequence for instance, of the people by the trucks being shot dead from a US helicopter has nothing whatever to do with Fallujah. If this is serious journalism, I'm a gherkin.

Best - AT.

PS needless to add we have pursued this story for months and if can stand anything up IN FACT then rest assured we shall broadcast.
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SO HE'S A GHERKIN well and truly pickled

[Andrew Johnson]

It is interesting to see the depth of his denial. I can understand someone saying the pictures are "faked" in some way, but it seems to me that he did nothing to say why ALice Mahon's statements were false. She seemed to have documentary evidence that what she was saying was true.

If Mahon was involved in propaganda, it wasn't very effective - I have never heard of her before this issue.