Newsweek report on Quran matches many earlier accounts

[Roland99]

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/newsweek_koran_report_516.htm

Contrary to White House assertions, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek May 6 are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States, RAW STORY has learned.

Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram airbase prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Quran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.

If the Newsweek report erred, it was perhaps in saying that the U.S. was slated to acknowledge desecrating the Quran in internal investigations. But reports of desecration are manifold.

One such incident—during which the Koran allegedly was thrown in a pile and stepped on—prompted a hunger strike among Guantanamo detainees in Mar. 2002, which led to an apology. The New York Times interviewed former detainee Nasser Nijer Naser al-Mutairi May 1, who said the protest ended with a senior officer delivering an apology to the entire camp.

Soo...this has been going on for THREE YEARS and we're just now hearing about it.

[Avalux]

1. Newsweek has been targeted

ANY news organization who reports the truth (and I believe the story is true) will be brought down. The only ones who will survive are those who say "yes master" to the power mongers running our government.

[warrens]

2. Newsweek was told to take it back

Or no access to anyone in the White House. Of this I am sure. Now the thugs can say, WE didn't create the hatred of the U.S., NEWSWEEK did.

[htuttle]

3. This isn't actually the first we're hearing of it

We've been hearing about it since they started releasing some people from Guantanamo. The reports have been all around the world.

It just SEEMS like the first time we are hearing it, since Americans are afflicted with the 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and can't remember things one week to the next.

[madhat]

4. Bush already said at his Press Conference that they'd do ANYTHING

to get information from detainees.

Of course they'd do this.

[lala_rawraw]

5. Raw Story - Newsweek report on Quran matches many earlier accounts

THE PRESS
Newsweek report on Quran matches many earlier accounts

RAW STORY

Contrary to White House assertions, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek May 6 are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States, RAW STORY has learned.

Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram airbase prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Quran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.

Where the Newsweek report likely erred was in saying that the U.S. was slated to acknowledge desecrating the Quran in internal investigations, and in relying on a single anonymous source to make grave allegations. But reports of desecration are manifold.

One such incident—during which the Koran allegedly was thrown in a pile and stepped on—prompted a hunger strike among Guantanamo detainees in Mar. 2002, which led to an apology. The New York Times interviewed former detainee Nasser Nijer Naser al-Mutairi May 1, who said the protest ended with a senior officer delivering an apology to the entire camp.

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/newsweek_koran_report_516.htm

[peacetalksforall]

6. Honor and integrity? NO! Lies, Theft. Propaganda. Dis-Reality. n/t

[MADem]

7. I remember reading those reports

...which is why I smell a rat in this current brouhaha. Oddly enough, though Newsweek has apologized, they have NOT RETRACTED. That in itself is interesting.

Guess NEWSWEEK has gone too far off the reservation, and needs to be RATHERIZED....

[lala_rawraw]

8. PEOPLE...

THEY ARE SPINNING THIS LIKE RATHER GATE... BUT WHAT NEWSWEEK MAY HAVE MADE A MISTAKE ON WAS ONE OF THE SOURCES, NOT THE ACCUSATIONS... SOUND FAMILIAR?

THE STORY IS BEING DISCREDITED BASED ON AN ERROR ABOUT A SOURCE, NOT ABOUT THE ACTUAL FACTS OF THE STORY...

WTF??????

THIS IS SHIT AND WE NEED TO LET CNN AND OTHERS KNOW JUST HOW WE FEEL... EMAIL NON-STOP, CALL NON-STOP AND DEMAND THAT THE FACTS BE FOCUSED ON... NOT THE ERROR OR WE LOSE YET ANOTHER GOOD REPORTER TO RW BS.

[seemslikeadream]

9. Reported on MSNBC

just now Newsweek has NOT retracted the story.

[Roland99]

13. Could very well have been an "honest mistake" by the source

in order to discredit Newsweek.

[Stockholm]

10. Truth will always come out in the end n/t

[dave29]

11. I hate waiting for the end

can't we skip to it?

[goclark]

14. Smells like ROVE to me

[Lori Price CLG]

12. This is LBN - not general discussion? n/t

[iamjoy]

15. Whiffs Of Rather/CBS On The Guard Memo

a set up.
Only in this case, I think the original story WAS true and once the U.S. saw the trouble it was causing the official was under pressure to retract his statements. Now they are blaming Newsweek.

The Muslims do not believe this story was due to poor reporting by Newsweek, they think it is true but the government is now trying to kill it.

So does that mean I hate America?