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America's Foul Treatment of Prisoners 'Impossible to Deny'
By Sara Sefchovich
May 26, 2005

http://www.watchingamerica.com/eluniversal000013.html

Last week the U.S. was again beset by scandal, with the White House and the State Department accusing Newsweek magazine of seriously damaging the country with an article that appeared in a recent edition of the weekly publication. "This report has had serious consequences, as people were killed and the image of the United States abroad has been damaged," Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said.

The article at issue said that American guards at the Guantanamo naval base had defiled the Koran, the Muslim Holy book, flushing down its pages in front of prisoners. The information triggered rioting in Afghanistan and protests in several other Islamic countries, leaving 17 dead and dozens wounded. The magazine retracted the story, but it was much too late to avert the anger of Muslims in and out of the United States.

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The most important thing, nevertheless, is to understand what happened. First and foremost, it is now impossible for the White House, the Pentagon, the departments of State, Defense or the company to aspire to deny reports of the brutal methods used in obtaining confessions from prisoners, and second, these agencies should drop the pretense that they themselves were not the source of the leaked information.

In fact, Human Rights Watch and newspapers such as The New York Times have confirmed that the sources of this information are within the American Army itself. And there is more and more evidence of this every day.

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