The NYT and the WaPo are on a campaign to hurt the admin by hurting the military.
Of course, you are going to believe whatever you believe. But I can't just let that hand out there unanswered. Here are the headlines from the Post as far back as the retraction and the top few paragraphs of the articles on the recent round, the Pentagon report. IMO they just don't support your case.
Inmates Alleged Koran Abuse (The Washington Post)
By Dan Eggen and Josh White, Page A01, May 26, 2005
Newly released documents highlight detainee accounts of mistreatment of the Koran, physical abuse at Guantanamo Bay prison....
Desecration of Koran Had Been Reported Before (The Washington Post)
By Carol D. Leonnig, Page A12, May 18, 2005
Newsweek magazine's now-retracted story that a military guard at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, flushed a copy of the Koran down a......
Pentagon Confirms Koran Incidents (The Washington Post)
By Josh White and Dan Eggen, Page A01, May 27, 2005
The Pentagon has substantiated five cases in which the Muslim holy book was mishandled at the U.S. military prison, but characterized the cases as......
Pentagon Denies Desecration of Koran (The Washington Post)
By William Branigin, May 17, 2005
The Pentagon said today it has not received any specific, credible allegations of willful desecration of the Koran by interrogators at the......
Koran Allegation May Long Resonate (The Washington Post)
By Kamran Khan and Pamela Constable, Page A01, May 18, 2005
Anger over Koran report was exploited by some groups, speeded by improved communications in the Muslim world and mingled with other sources of......
Muslims Rally Over Koran Report (The Washington Post)
By Daniel Williams and Kamran Khan, Page A14, May 28, 2005
CAIRO, May 28 -- Muslims in several countries demonstrated Friday in resurgent anti-American anger over reported desecration of the Islamic holy......
U.S. Long Had Memo on Handling of Koran (The Washington Post)
By Robin Wright, Page A03, May 17, 2005
Memo written a year after the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo from Afghanistan outlined "extra precautions" for the handling of the......
Flushing Out the Story (washingtonpost.com)
By Howard Kurtz, May 27, 2005
So the newly declassified FBI documents showing allegations of U.S. guards abusing the Koran have made a huge splash in the media, right?...
Red Cross Says It Told U.S. in 2002 About Alleged Mishandling of Koran (The Washington Post)
By Carol D. Leonnig, Page A18, May 20, 2005
The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday that it repeatedly expressed concern to the U.S. government in 2002 and early 2003......
Newsweek Retracts Koran Story (The Washington Post)
By Howard Kurtz, May 16, 2005
Newsweek issued a formal retraction today of the flawed story that sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and other countries after coming under......
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"Pentagon Confirms Koran Incidents
'Mishandling' Cases Preceded Guidelines Established in 2003
By Josh White and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 27, 2005; Page A01
Pentagon officials said yesterday that investigators have identified five incidents of military guards and an interrogator "mishandling" the Koran at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but characterized the episodes as minor and said most occurred before specific rules on the treatment of Muslim holy items were issued.
Brig. Gen. Jay W. Hood, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said investigators have looked into 13 specific allegations of Koran desecration at the prison dating to early 2002 and have determined eight of them to be unfounded, lacking credibility or the result of accidental touching of the holy book. Of the five cases of mishandling, three were "very likely" deliberate and two were "very likely accidental," he said. But Hood declined to provide details, citing an ongoing investigation."
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"Inmates Alleged Koran Abuse
FBI Papers Cite Complaints as Early as 2002
By Dan Eggen and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 26, 2005; Page A01
Detainees told FBI interrogators as early as April 2002 that mistreatment of the Koran was widespread at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and many said they were severely beaten by captors there or in Afghanistan, according to FBI documents released yesterday.
The summaries of FBI interviews, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of an ongoing lawsuit, include a dozen allegations that the Koran was kicked, thrown to the floor or withheld as punishment. One prisoner said in August 2002 that guards had "flushed a Koran in the toilet" and had beaten some detainees.
But the Pentagon said yesterday that the same prisoner, who is still in custody, was reinterviewed on May 14 and "did not corroborate" his earlier claim about the Koran.
"We still have found no credible allegations that a Koran was flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in a statement last night."
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