how about if millions of American civilians were to get cheap copies of the Koran and film themselves flushing them in their home toilets?
CHE (Roto-Rooter)
Posted on 05/26/2005 12:51:53 AM PDT by Wiz
...goes to this Reuters story: "FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards flushing Koran". Sensational story, huh? That's what the lefty who emailed us the link thought. He wrote:
Will this make your front page?
I hope you do the right thing and acknowledge that Newsweek was correct in it's [sic] story, but I doubt it.
Unfortunately for our correspondent, who so badly wants the Newsweek story to be true, the article says no such thing. What it reports is old news:
An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
That such accusations have been made by detainees, along with other implausible claims, has been public knowledge for a long time.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Too late. Newsweak got it out there, and then retracted it. But not before the damage was done.
I hate these people. Moreso, because some of them are coming with my unit to theater as embeds.
Some help has arrived. I think these folks are going to have the media on the run. Check this out and tell everyone about this website.
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Try to get it right,,,flush the Arab down the S.H.,,,,
Funny... the story was moved to Blogger section and it went back to the news section. I didn't mind if it was to go to blogger section since I have noticed it may have been more appropriate in the blogger section. Well, it's up to the moderator.
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I hate these people. Moreso, because some of them are coming with my unit to theater as embeds.
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Dude, shoot'em. They want you to.
Linda Foley is part and parcel of what is wrong with journalists today. Her lame clarification: "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military", digs an even deeper if not sinister hole; are we now to believe there is some group within our military whose job it is to silence reporters? Ms. Foley should be relieved of her job.
When you see this line..."the official asked not to be identified" or this..."from a source at the___ who asks for anonymity....". Just remember this - The problem with anonymity is the lack of accountability. If there is no accountability, there is no story, just another fairy tale.
how about if millions of American civilians were to get cheap copies of the Koran and film themselves flushing them in their home toiletsI predict full employment for plumbers.
Linda Foley is part and parcel of what is wrong with journalists today. Her lame clarification: "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military", digs an even deeper if not more sinister hole; are we now to believe there is some group within our military whose job it is to silence reporters? Ms. Foley should be relieved of her job.
bttt
There are members of the military who are not part of the troops...huh?
Don't be an idiot.
Read the same article in USA Today. Starting to think they should change the name of the paper to USA Slander Daily. Article is titled, "Formerly secret FBI records cite Koran claims." Guess the MSM just can't let such a juicy anti-military story slide by easily.
This is really a business opportunity. If someone would print the koran on toilet paper they would make a fortune.
how about if millions of American civilians were to get cheap copies of the Koran and film themselves flushing them in their home toilets?
CHE (Roto-Rooter)
Not enough rioting and death, so the media needs to rub this in a little bit more.
The media is taking this detainee at his word, I guess. What's new?
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