Posted on 05/15/2005 11:56:50 AM PDT by smag999
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it may have erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to victims of deadly violence sparked by the article.
The weekly news magazine said in its May 23 edition that the original source of the allegation was not sure where he saw the assertion that at least one copy of the Koran was flushed down a toilet in an attempt to get detainees to talk.
"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," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on U.S. newsstands on Monday.
The report has 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.
On Sunday, Afghan Muslim clerics threatened to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it handed over the interrogators in question.
The May 9 report quoted unnamed sources as saying that military investigators probing abuse at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found that interrogators had placed copies of the Koran on toilets and "in at least one case, flushed a holy book down the toilet."
Newsweek said a Pentagon spokesman told the magazine late last week that the story was wrong and that the military has found no credible evidence to support separate allegations of Koran desecration made by released detainees.
The U.S. military opened an investigation into the charges while top U.S. officials urged Muslims to resist calls for violence, stating disrespect for the holy book would not be tolerated.
NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED
Newsweek helped kill innocent Men, Women and Children with a false report...Like CBS did with Bush. One by one....
Outrageous. Will Newsweek apologize and pay reparations?
Newsweek knew exactly what it was doing...mission accomplished.
He is sorry he and his staff helped murder people ...
Extradite them.
That story didn't past the smell test in the first place. Now those sorry POSs do have blood on their hands and what you say is right on.
Many of us have loved ones fighting as we write, in Afghanistan and Iraq. You'd better believe I'm writing Newsweek a snail mail letter, can someone post their CEO's address please?
And what do you think the chances are of a cover story about their screw up. They sure have blood on their hads now. Can it be put back in the bottle ? Anything to knock the Administration down a few notches... Sick.....
Unless its editors and all personnel involved in producing this story resign from the magazine, it should be shut down as a criminal organization, just as are other terrorist-abetting organizations.
I'm surprised it made Reuters.
Remember what CBS said in defense of publishing false memos-
It's not the truth of the story, its the seriousness of the charges. And that is what passes for news reporting in tabloid rags such as NewsWeek.
Bada Bing.
First email is going to this joke. To bad I can't cancel the rag.
As far as I'm concerned we could hand the reporter and the editor over to them; however, since I detest the hypocritical Muslims more than I do the MSM, I say BRING IT ON. IF we let them have their way, it will just lead to more of the same crap that we have been experiencing since 9-11. We can NEVER give into them!!
Can we say, "yellow journalism"?
Dear Newsweak,
Don't tell us, tell the Muslims.
t.
Let the lawsuits in international court begin
and naturally New Speak will want to honor their decisions
no matter how deep they might be financially..
whats a life worth on the market these days Newsweek?
Maybe the UN will put you aholes out of business once and for
all...:)
My first ping upon my return:
Will Muslimnutz burn Newsweek?
Can't be said enough. Isikoff should RESIGN, just as Dan Blatherer had to resign!
Char
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