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Newsweek apologizes for getting Koran-Guantanamo Bay story wrong. (The Editor's Desk)
Newsweek ^ | 05/15/05 | The Editor's Desk

Posted on 05/15/2005 10:31:22 AM PDT by Pikamax

May 23 issue - Did a report in NEWSWEEK set off a wave of deadly anti-American riots in Afghanistan? That's what numerous news accounts suggested last week as angry Afghans took to the streets to protest reports, linked to us, that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Qur'an while interrogating Muslim terror suspects. We were as alarmed as anyone to hear of the violence, which left at least 15 Afghans dead and scores injured. But I think it's important for the public to know exactly what we reported, why, and how subsequent events unfolded.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: Pikamax

They should be charged with manslaughter.


421 posted on 05/16/2005 9:09:52 AM PDT by Vicki (Re-Vote or Revolt in Washington State. Send the Feds)
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To: Pikamax
Can't believe what I just heard on TV. Not sure which channel as I was surfing.

NewsLeak is going to say that since the Washington Post and NY Times printed similar stories last year, they believed the story was true.

Well then, those two paragons of truth said it, so it must be true?

422 posted on 05/16/2005 9:26:02 AM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: Darnright
Newsweek prints a SECOND unsubstantiated and highly suspect Koran in the toilet story!

Powerline update. Powerlineblog.com is quoting IndigentPundit regarding Newsweek's "excuse." Newsweek has now defended itself by quoting an Al-Qaeda detainee saying "yes this happened to me" and it was so traumatic he couldn't sleep at night.

But Newsweek forgot to google,

If Newsweek had googled, they would have found that when this Mr. Bader Bader was released from Gitmo some time ago, he gave lengthy interviews to the press, but never mentioned the "Koran-in-the-toilet" event which he now claiims to be so mentally tormented about!!.

Only now, Post-Newsweek Periscope, is this man miraculously recovering from repressed-memory syndrome and Newsweek, self-righteious self-promoters that they are, run out with this Newsweek-inspired story and print it as fact!! They bought the fable hook line and sinker!

423 posted on 05/16/2005 9:28:31 AM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: cookcounty; MeekOneGOP
Roger Hedgecock [on Rush] just mentioned that the terrorists in Guantanamo were given new Korans and new prayer rugs by the military. Talk about a nasty slander! Totally opposite.
424 posted on 05/16/2005 9:43:21 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: Pikamax
NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED

May a herd of ambulance chasers track down relatives of the 15 dead and sue Newsweek out of existence.

425 posted on 05/16/2005 9:44:46 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; cookcounty
bump!

426 posted on 05/16/2005 9:46:27 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Pikamax

I didn't hear the apology. Was it like the clinton/fonda non-apology?


427 posted on 05/16/2005 9:50:07 AM PDT by ampat
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To: cookcounty

"If Newsweek had googled, they would have found that when this Mr. Bader Bader was released from Gitmo some time ago, he gave lengthy interviews to the press, but never mentioned the "Koran-in-the-toilet" event which he now claiims to be so mentally tormented about!!."

Well done! There you have it. Newb-week. They come of looking like a bunch of newbies.


428 posted on 05/16/2005 9:50:51 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: robertpaulsen
"Makes no difference? Let's just say that it's irrelevant in this case."

Lets not.

The story killed people. The story would have killed people true or not.

But that does NOT mean that it is "irrelevant" that the story was fabricated. It matters a great deal. This is a case of anti-American propaganda killing people...a far worse crime than publishing the truth and seeing the same people get killed.

429 posted on 05/16/2005 9:56:19 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Pikamax
NEWSWEEK LIED

PEOPLE DIED

Hold them accountable. For the intention. For the method. For the outcome. For the ramifications.

430 posted on 05/16/2005 9:59:25 AM PDT by polymuser
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
What's amazing is that Newsweek, with its patented StupidStaff of reporters, are entirely unaware that Al-Qaeda, in its training, teaches its people to fan the flames in precisely this fashion.

The sad fact is, Gitmo former detainee Bader Bader is good at his job. Michael Issakoff is not. Which is why Al-Qaeda can spin Newsweek like a top.

431 posted on 05/16/2005 9:59:25 AM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: polymuser

Great slogan! But in the media free market, I believe in letting the consumer decide the outcome. By the time Rush, Hannity, Savage, Boortz, Mike Reagan, Fox News, Drudge, and let's not forget Laura Ingraham are finished with Newb-week, they will be less respected than Dan Blather.


432 posted on 05/16/2005 10:05:33 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: cookcounty

"What's amazing is that Newsweek, with its patented StupidStaff of reporters, are entirely unaware that Al-Qaeda, in its training, teaches its people to fan the flames in precisely this fashion."

I might track your posts for a while. You're one sharp FReeper. FReegards....


433 posted on 05/16/2005 10:07:01 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: Pikamax

Well, good.

How soon can we expect the folks killed in Afghanistan
to return to life? And when can we expect the heightened
danger to our guys in Muslim countries triggered by this
story, to subside?


434 posted on 05/16/2005 10:12:07 AM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Agreed. What I'm finding most difficult about all this is how my parents' (the Great) generation has swallowed so much lib BS, and just can't see exposed reality now (like Walter Cronkite columns). Does staying on the dole really override all they fought and died for in WWII? I'm actually becoming ashamed of them.


435 posted on 05/16/2005 10:14:32 AM PDT by polymuser
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To: polymuser

"What I'm finding most difficult about all this is how my parents' (the Great) generation has swallowed so much lib BS, and just can't see exposed reality now (like Walter Cronkite columns)."

If you read Coulter's books, "Treason" and "Slander", you will understand how they did it. I don't know if Coulter mentioned it, but sometimes they would buy up or even snatch up every book or paper they could find if there was too much truth in them.

People would run around with one of the few newspaper clippings or books that was recalled, snatched, etc-- who would take them seriously? Try a google on "Tragedy and Hope", and you will see what I mean. One of those rare copies got in the hands of Shlafley, which inspired her to help Reagan become president. Also note that the author of Tragedy and Hope, Carol Quigley, was possibly Clinton's greatest mentor. What was the book about? The International Banking Establishment. Note Clinton's impeachable EO to bail out the IMF.


436 posted on 05/16/2005 10:25:16 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: Mo1
I still can't understand our congress on these issues. This country has been attacked over and over by the same people, yet no declaration of war! Perplexing, you bet.   It leaves the door open to the Jane Fonda's, John Kerry's, political and media treasonous abuse. Most recently, Newsweek's false reporting of the Koran being flushed down a toilet.
437 posted on 05/16/2005 10:28:43 AM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: Miss Marple

Saw the rep from Newsweek on a sunday show. He said, "Our Bad!" That does it for me, end of story.


438 posted on 05/16/2005 10:51:04 AM PDT by Holicheese (Timmy like windmills!)
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To: robertpaulsen
robert paulsen said:What if the incident were true and it was reported, resulting in the same number of deaths? Should they still be charged?

The logic you are using is utterly specious. If someone yells "Fire!" in a crowded theatre and people are killed in the ensuing stampede, there IS absolutely a difference in the degree of culpability for the resulting casualties depending on whether or not there actually existed a fire. Someone who recklessly yells "FIRE!" when there wasn't one (as Newsweek did) can & would be held responsible for the deaths he caused. Isikoff (he's a pretty smart guy, I'm very surprised he's part of this) better get a good lawyer.

439 posted on 05/16/2005 11:11:29 AM PDT by leilani
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To: Pikamax

In these days, people are charged indirectly for murder involving car wrecks, etc. The author should suffer the same.


440 posted on 05/16/2005 11:12:29 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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