Sunday, May 15, 2005
time to slap shit outa someone
Damn. Newsweek deserves all the contempt plus criminal charges for this batshit.
Newsweek says Koran desecration report is wrong
I don't know why ANYONE would ever subscribe to that gadawful rag. Back most of 40 years ago when I was attending lefty-U as an impressionable teen, that rag stuck out as pure crap. There's no reason to inflame the mindless followers of that piece of murder called the Koran, especially since OUR citizens get caught up it Newsweek's shit. Newsweek went waaaaay beyond anything resembling freedom of the press and should pay dearly for the shit they stirred up with a C
style document. Wonder if Dan Blather was a contributer as a "knowledgeble government source"?
Newsweek says Koran desecration report is wrong
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine said on Sunday it erred in a May 9 report that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article.
Editor Mark Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Muslim holy book down the toilet.
The report sparked angry and violent protests across the Muslim world from
Afghanistan, where 16 were killed and more than 100 injured, to Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza. In the past week it was condemned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and by the Arab League.
On Sunday, Afghan Muslim clerics threatened to call for a holy war against the United States.
"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, due to appear on U.S. newsstands on Monday.
The weekly news magazine said in its May 23 edition that the information had come from a "knowledgeable government source" who told Newsweek that a military report on abuse at Guantanamo Bay said interrogators flushed at least one copy of the Koran down a toilet in a bid to make detainees talk.
But Newsweek said the source later told the magazine he could not be certain he had seen an account of the Koran incident in the military report and that it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts. (snip)
I don't know why ANYONE would ever subscribe to that gadawful rag. Back most of 40 years ago when I was attending lefty-U as an impressionable teen, that rag stuck out as pure crap. There's no reason to inflame the mindless followers of that piece of murder called the Koran, especially since OUR citizens get caught up it Newsweek's shit. Newsweek went waaaaay beyond anything resembling freedom of the press and should pay dearly for the shit they stirred up with a C
style document. Wonder if Dan Blather was a contributer as a "knowledgeble government source"?
