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Newsweek Apologizes for Quran Story
Sunday, May 15, 2005
NEW YORK � Newsweek magazine Sunday apologized for a May 9 report alleging U.S. interrogators flushed the Quran down the toilet at Guantanamo Bay, a claim that had prompted attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip that left 15 dead and scores more injured.
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue.
In response to the demonstrations and subsequent deadly clashes that sparked promises by the U.S. for an investigation, about 500 Islamic scholars and tribal elders gathered in Faizabad (search), 310 miles northeast of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul (search). The scholars called for a resolution mandating anyone found to have abused the Quran (search) to be punished, said Maulawi Abdul Wali Arshad, head of the religious affairs department in Badakhshan province.
Arshad and the provincial police chief said the scholars demanded a "reaction" from U.S. authorities within three days, but they denied reports that the scholars threatened to declare a holy war if the deadline was not respected.
The controversial Newsweek report said U.S. military investigators found evidence that interrogators had placed copies of Islam's holy book in washrooms and had flushed one down the toilet in efforts to get inmates to talk.
Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Daniel Klaidman said the magazine believes it erred in reporting the allegation and that military investigators had confirmed the accusation.
"The issue here is to get the truth out, to acknowledge as quickly as possible what happened, and that's what we're trying to do," Klaidman told the "CBS Evening News" on Sunday.
Whitaker wrote that the magazine's information came from "a knowledgeable U.S. government source," and before publishing the item, writers Michael Isikoff and John Barry sought comment from two Defense Department officials. One declined to respond, and the other challenged another part of the story but did not dispute the Quran charge, Whitaker said.
But on Friday, a top Pentagon spokesman told the magazine that a review of the military's investigation concluded: "It was never meant to look into charges of Quran desecration." The spokesman also said the Pentagon had investigated "other desecration charges by detainees and found them 'not credible."'
Whitaker added that the magazine's original source later said he could not be sure he read about the alleged Quran incident in the report they cited, and that it might have been in another document.
"Top administration officials have promised to continue looking into the charges, and so will we," Whitaker wrote.
On Aug. 1, 2002, an FBI agent who went to Gitmo made a report detailing statements from a detainee who said a U.S. official had flushed the Quran, sources told FOX News. The FBI did not confirm that this allegation was true, but it did pass on a report about the detainee's statement to the Department of Defense, U.S. officials said.
Several U.S. officials told FOX News they have no evidence of the incident, which they said could have been triggered by a released detainee making unfounded allegations.
On Thursday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers said a guard claimed a detainee was ripping pages out of a Quran and putting them in the toilet to stop it up as a protest.
Officials at Guantanamo keep detailed logs of detainee actions, as well as what at times have been considered questionable countermeasures taken by guards that human rights groups have charged amount to abuse, officials said.
Many of the 520 inmates at Guantanamo are Muslims arrested during the U.S.-led war against the Taliban and its Al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said in a televised interview that the allegations were being investigated "vigorously."
"If it turns out to be true, obviously we will take action against those responsible," he said.
FOX News' Anna Persky, Bret Baier, Nick Simeone and Heather Scroope and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Republican_Man
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| Sun May 15, 2005 9:57 pm |
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They pushed the story so much on purpose. I don't think that they're apology is really that sincere. Anything against the Bush administration helps people like them. There's no apology for pushing a story like this that resulted in deaths that anyone could possibly give.
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| Mon May 16, 2005 2:41 am |
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A little late for an apoligie I'd say, since they knew all of this from the start, no? 
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| Mon May 16, 2005 2:45 am |
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Ok quick question what is a quran?
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| Mon May 16, 2005 2:48 am |
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| nadia wrote: | | Ok quick question what is a quran? |
Its like the Muslim version of a Bible.
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| Mon May 16, 2005 2:54 am |
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Oh yeah I new that, I supose I didn't know how it was spelt thats all  Can some one sum up what happened? Its to much for me to read!
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| Mon May 16, 2005 3:00 am |
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| Quote: | NEW YORK � Newsweek magazine Sunday apologized for a May 9 report alleging U.S. interrogators flushed the Quran down the toilet at Guantanamo Bay, a claim that had prompted attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip that left 15 dead and scores more injured.
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue. |
Most important part.
Its disgusting that these people lied about it. All they did was fuel Anti-Americanism and hurt many people.
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| Mon May 16, 2005 3:03 am |
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Thanks Founder. So they are appologising for flushing the quran down the toilet?
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| Mon May 16, 2005 3:05 am |
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| nadia wrote: | | Thanks Founder. So they are appologising for flushing the quran down the toilet? |
No. The newspaper people are apologizing for lieing about it or at least stretching the truth about it.
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| Mon May 16, 2005 3:07 am |
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So did they realy flush the quran down the toilet?
Im realy confused!
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| Mon May 16, 2005 3:11 am |
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| nadia wrote: | So did they realy flush the quran down the toilet?
Im realy confused! |
Who knows? I want to say no, but its safe to say that a VERY FEW American soldiers are torturing prisoners over there. So it is possible. The point is, there is no proof to the claim this newspaper made and because they went ahead and did this story, people have been hurt and killed. It was all based off of sketchy information.
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| Mon May 16, 2005 3:21 am |
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Thats so stupid of the newspapers to do that! If ppl didn't get hurt or killed they probily wouldn't appologise for it!
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webtaz99
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| Mon May 16, 2005 12:14 pm |
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The person who told this, and the editor who published it should be convicted of treason and shot. Newsweek should be shut down.
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Dirt
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| Mon May 16, 2005 1:48 pm |
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Whoa, talk about extreme.
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| Mon May 16, 2005 3:46 pm |
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That is what they do. They lie or streach the truth about everything to get a story.
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Republican_Man
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| Mon May 16, 2005 4:20 pm |
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| Founder wrote: | | nadia wrote: | So did they realy flush the quran down the toilet?
Im realy confused! |
Who knows? I want to say no, but its safe to say that a VERY FEW American soldiers are torturing prisoners over there. So it is possible. The point is, there is no proof to the claim this newspaper made and because they went ahead and did this story, people have been hurt and killed. It was all based off of sketchy information. |
There have only been approximately ONE HUNDRED complaints or whatever you want to call it. That is MINISCULE for a war like this and army of this size and when you compare it to past wars.
And oh, Time complains about going into Iraq based on sketchy info, and yet they produce a story that GETS SOLDIERS KILLED? This, I say it again, is all an attempt at damaging the Bush Administration.
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| Mon May 16, 2005 4:23 pm |
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I call telling the world (falsely or not) that Americans flushed a copy of al-Qur'an during a war against Islamic extremists aiding the enemy.
From the US Constitution:
Article. III.
Section. 3.
Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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