Newsweek says may have erred in Koran report

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[paul_fromatlanta]

Let's don't forget to spread the blame around here -

1. It's not rational to riot and harm your own people because of an unsubstantiated report that someone on another continent harmed a copy of your holy book. The people who did the violence are to blame.

2. I don't want to over do this one but there have been a series of real incidents that heightened tensions... the American Taliban with all the humiliating writing on his body, the lack of trials and rights for the accused, the abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere have not helped either.

3. Our "allies" Pakistan and Saudi Arabia didn't exactly come to our defense. Where was the crown Prince saying "that's not the way American's do things" or even "If it happened it was isolated and the American government will do the right thing"

[happydogx2]

Gentlemen and ladies,

This is major news.

Send an email expressing your outrage.

mark.whitaker@newsweek.com

[montag813]

AIRDROP MICHAEL ISAKOFF INTO ISLAMABAD NOW!!!

LET THIS "SON-OF-A-BITCH" TELL THEM ABOUT HIS "ERROR"

[bvw]

Newsweek's lies have ZERO to do with people being killed. Thugs who murder and hate under color of a "religion" used that story as a pretxt for inflaming more hate, for riot and for murder. If it wasn't that story it would have been another.

Hooray for Newsweek's mistake! Not for the killings -- but for that mistake shows that the haters still have the field and will murder until they are stopped.

[don-o]

OK - let's see if we can get 15 theads going about the story and 500 posts "newsweek lied, people died."

I know we can

[processing please hold]

I've already been to a few. It's growing.

[NonValueAdded]

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.

Is that ALL they did to confirm the story before printing??? ONE source and even then he can't provide details??? That is journalistic malpractice. That is TREASON. I hope a plane load of lawyers is in flight now getting statements in preparation for the lawsuits that will bankrupt Newsweek.

[Arpege92]

"On Sunday, Afghan Muslim clerics threatened to call for a holy war against the United States in three unless it handed over the interrogators in question."

Normally I would tell them to go straight to hell but in this case, I say we hand over the idiots behind this sham of a report to the Afghan Muslim clerics. Let 'em get a little taste by those they seem so hell bent on defending!!!!

[stockpirate]

But, if it were a Republican the media would be screaming.

[Goodgirlinred]

Hmmm, well, we could tell them that they are traitors to our cause.

[Darksheare]

This istrue.
They'd want his head on a platter.

[Reactionary]

NewsWeek has blood on its hands. The entire liberal establishment does.

[b4its2late]

Newsweak should be closed down.

[ArmyBratproud]

This is the lowest of lows.

I doubt they even made the smallest of efforts to confirm it.

I would not be surprised if their "source" either did not exist, or said nothing of the sort.

Newsweek drummed up this bogus story in an effort to cause chaos and scream Vietnam (which we were winning, btw.)

I know in the past that Newsweek and MSNBC types have had links.

So this just adds to the list of their anti American actions.

[ArmyBratproud]

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.""

--More like LIED.

On Sunday, Afghan Muslim clerics threatened to call for a holy war against the United States.''

- Newsweek should face charges for a deliberate attempt to harm US National Security....and troops.
TREASON

- Kill the clerics who declare holy wars. For some reason...the US never seems to go after that group of terrorists. Even though they threaten and harm US citizen.

[ArmyBratproud]

No evidence that it happened, and they still ran the bogus story!

ALSO- How do you flush a book down a toilet??? It's a little too big.

ALSO...do they have toilets in the areas at gitmo....or are they temp portapottys? Do they even flush?

So many reasons to know the allegations are false....yet Newsweek, without any confirmation, runs with it.

PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THIS!!!!!!!!

[ArmyBratproud]

"This was reported very carefully, with great sensitivity and concern, and we'll continue to report on it," said Newsweek Managing Editor John Meecham. "We have tried to be transparent about exactly what happened, and we leave it to the readers to judge us."


--"carefully". They are nutjobs if they think people will buy that crap. This is worse than Ranther's fake memos.

And they say the are not planning action against the staff!!!

Just like cBS first did. The liberals are off their rockers.


Everybody should make an effort to e-mail every local talkshow in their area, every national show they can think of, and Fox News.......and ask them to report on the treason the Newsweek just committed.

[kcvl]

Should I wait for Michael Isokoff to apologize and quit?! /sarcasm

[Txsleuth]

They say they are trying to be transparent, but Evan Thomas' statement just ADDS more conjecture of wrongs done by the US---and THAT will add more fuel---

I have seen about 3-4 military people on Fox in the last couple days and they are really mad---about Newsweek and the fact that the US is even giving the Koran to prisoners at Gitmo---

Plus, the people at CAIR and such are just fanning the flames....which also lets you know how the feel about their own people...it was Afghanis that died, not Americans because of this.

I wonder what they would do if a bunch of Americans went to Wash.D.C. and piled a bunch of Korans up and burned them, lie they go our flag and effigys of Bush?

[kcvl]

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.

Whitaker told Reuters that Newsweek did not know if the reported toilet incident involving the Koran ever occurred. "As to whether anything like this happened, we just don't know," he said in an interview. "We're not saying it absolutely happened but we can't say that it absolutely didn't happen either."

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Newsweek reported that Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita reacted angrily when the magazine asked about the source's continued assertion that he had read about the Koran incident in an investigative report. "People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?" DiRita told Newsweek.

The May 9 report, which appeared as a brief item by Michael Isikoff and John Barry in the magazine's "Periscope" section, had a huge international impact, sparking the protests from Muslims who consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence.

Desecration of the Koran is punishable by death in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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"This was reported very carefully, with great sensitivity and concern, and we'll continue to report on it," said Newsweek Managing Editor John Meecham. "We have tried to be transparent about exactly what happened, and we leave it to the readers to judge us."

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"We believed our story was newsworthy because a U.S. official said government investigators turned up this evidence. So we published the item," Whitaker said.

"Our original source later said he couldn't be certain about reading of the alleged Koran incident in the report we cited," he wrote.


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