smilingassassin

Seems Newsweek got the story wrong, now hundreds have been affected by their neglegable reporting.

Newsweek may have erred in Qur'an article: report
CTV.ca News Staff

Newsweek magazine said it may have been mistaken in an article that alleged U.S. interrogators flushed the Qur'an down the toilet.

Protests erupted Tuesday after the magazine reported in a recent edition that investigators at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, placed the Muslim holy book in washrooms to prompt detainees to talk.

The May 9 report quoted unnamed sources as saying that the interrogators had "in at least one case, flushed a holy book down the toilet."

Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker apologized to victims of the violence triggered by the allegations of desecration.

"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, set to appear on U.S. newsstands Monday, Reuters reported Sunday.

The article sparked demonstrations across the Muslim world.

In Afghanistan, 15 were killed and more than 100 wounded in anti-U.S. protests that erupted across the country.

The Arab League, based in Cairo, Egypt, also issued a statement saying Washington should apologize to Muslims if the allegations were correct.

Meanwhile, U.S. ally andýPakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf called for an investigation on the report.

In Yemen on Saturday, thousands of university students hit the streets in a demonstration, chanting "Death to America!"

Newsweek reported that a Pentagon spokesman told the publication late last week that the claims were wrong and that the military found no evidence to support allegations of desecration.

Many of the 520 inmates at Guantanamo Bay are said to be Muslims arrested during the American.-led war on terror.


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Confed999

Too late.

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smilingassassin

The media are slow learners, and quicker with their mouths.

You'd think they would see the ramifications of this type of allegation and do the essential research first.

Anon

LOL, yeah...right.

Bluesman

Full retraction of the story just issued from NEWSWEEK.

Thanks.

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Asim Aquil

http://www.tsujiru.net/?p=115

You think Newsweek is going to become a scapegoat when the situation got out of hand? Lets see what action is taken against Newsweek.

Bluesman

Excellent commentary here:

Franco Lolan

This enrages me. People DIED because of this!

Bluesman

And many more are yet to die. Our entire effort has been undermined; we won't know the full impact of this for years.

The writer's invocation of the memory of Ernie Pyle is very apt, and I wonder what a reporter/journalist of that era would make of his modern colleagues.

I remember something a reporter (and it may have been Ernie) from WWII said as he was leaving the briefing in which entire press contingent had been told the detailed plans for the invasion of Sicily by Eisenhower himself: "I'm afraid to take a drink now." No thought that someone would attempt to 'scoop' the story - total trust, because they felt they were all in this thing together.

No more. The media is the enemy of the American soldier, and it is no wonder at all that commanders are unwilling to be forthcoming to the press. I would no more tell a reporter what my plans were than I'd tell Zarqawi, because essentially, it'd be the same thing.

Asim Aquil

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/may2005-d...main/main2.htm

Apparrently there is another witness that correllates the Quran story, but more importantly his treatment by US soldiers and the Pakistani prison is appalling. That too an innocent and a person that has no charges on him.

Y'know people call this a War against Terror/Islam. It just seems like a war against humanity.

highsea

"Certainly a press corps that wants readers to forgive its own mistakes might start by showing a little more respect and understanding for the men and women who risk their lives to defend the country."

Amen.

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Bluesman

Would it surprise you that an aQ training manual instructs former detainees to lie about the conditions of their captivity?

Asim Aquil

yes it does. Hmmm my bad probably but I couldn't find any reference to any lying. They're out to ruin America, so I guess that'd be an effective way to hurt the morale.

But given that this Pakistani, was released by the Americans as not an AQ, I doubt he was trained by that manual. Now the Pakistani Prison has falsely kept him in jail without trial, as well, which sucks a little bit more than his treatment before.

Non-terror related Pakistanis also visitted Afghanistan regularly. Its my opinion that any Pakistani that was caught returning from Afghanistan was arrested by Pakistani rangers and the rest got arrested when the Taliban fell.

Anon

"The media is the enemy of the American soldier,"

They're an enemy to the nation which has given them license to kill via words. The fifth column, the enemy within.

"and it is no wonder at all that commanders are unwilling to be forthcoming to the press. I would no more tell a reporter what my plans were than I'd tell Zarqawi, because essentially, it'd be the same thing."

EXACTLY the same thing.

InfiniteDreams

Bluesman you put it into perspective.

This is TREASON not freedom of speech. We are in a war for christs sake what the hell are they thinking? I would bet someone had a little chit chat with NEWSWEEK behind closed doors and told them how the cow eats the cabbage.

This is the greastest nation on earth but when our freedoms and liberty hurt those defending those freedoms and liberties we reached a threshold and come to a crossroads. I love this country and our freedoms but in wartime things aren't status quo.

I don't give a rats *** whether the story is true or not. The guys aren't in there for traffic tickets... Nothing good can come from this type of reporting.

The sad reailty is that it shows us just what we're up against.... the mentality of the muslim extremists. These people go nuts and riot, kill and injure others at a newsweek report? It gives even more validity to the fact that these guys are outta control and we're not to turn our backs on them.

Do these guys not work? It seems like these extremists have alot of time on their hands and no sense of purpose in life. Everything the US does these guys get worked up over. They have nothing to do so let's hate the USA. When they burn our flags we don't go crazy over here. Seriously something's a little funny with these people (muslim extremists).

I've read the Koran and Islam is a beautiful religion but these guys are off their rockers and maybe it's because they're poor and uneducated. And that's the US's fault too right? Maybe if they have the access to information and freedom to choose for themselves things would be different. But it seems Islam is all there is for them so that's there only option. It's almost as if religion is shoved down their throats.

We're facing an enemy that is so far out there which is something the liberals obviously don't seem to understand when they print stories like this.