BBC Gets Qu'ran desecration wrong

[ProudDad]

Even the BBC is getting this one wrong. In the article on Laura * in Jerusalem and in the BBC World Service radio accounts of the Newsweek "retraction", they've been getting the facts wrong.

Here's what I wrote the BBC:

Re: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4570993.stm

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Please, please, please start getting the facts RIGHT. Stop saying that Newsweek's weak-willed retraction of one article means that the facts of the Qu'ran desecrations by U.S. interrogators at GITMO and elsewhere are false.

From your web article (and audio reports I've heard on BBC radio here in the US): (Desecration of the Qu'ran) "was a reference to allegations - now retracted - by American magazine Newsweek that US officials at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba had desecrated the Muslim holy book."

Newsweek is not the only source for infomation about the facts that the Qu'ran has been desecrated by U.S. interrogators. Even Newsweek's "retraction" centered around an anonymous source, NOT THE FACTS.

For more information, please refer to our national treasure Molly Ivin's fuller account of this issue: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/22026 /

I've been very dissapointed with your lazy reporting on this issue. It's atypical for an organization as trustworthy as you have been to be so sloppy in your reporting.

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