Senior Bush administration officials reacted with outrage to a Newsweek report that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility, and the magazine retracted the story last week. But allegations of disrespectful treatment of Islam's holy book are far from rare.
An examination of hearing transcripts, court records and government documents, as well as interviews with former detainees, their lawyers, civil liberties groups and U.S. military personnel, reveals dozens of accusations involving the Koran, not only at Guantanamo, but also at American-run detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
A reminder from the LA Times, that Newsweek was right
Dozens Have Alleged Koran's Mishandling
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I'm not sure what's scarier, the lack of respect inherent in the desecration of the Koran or the lack of backbone at Newsweek.
It is funny how the fact that the Afgan Riots were not a result of the Newsweek story is being pointed out again and again, and no one is noticing.
Yes, and isn't it strange that it's OK for the Pentagon to lie about Pat Tillman's death, but Newsweek is supposed to fall on its sword because its sources are backing away from a story they initially confirmed?
About Tillman.
He was awarded a Silver Star for heroic acts that occured just prior to his death (if my memory serves).
So, I wnat to know how the Army determined that he had earned a Silver Star, and if the 'facts' around his getting if have changed, are the going to 'reclaim' the citation.
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