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To: Bill who wrote (104323)	5/16/2005 7:45:22 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

NewsWeek admits that it screwed up.

To: Bill who wrote (104323)	5/17/2005 12:33:28 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I have read quite a bit about this story now, and I have read nothing like you are saying. The senior U.S. government official who was the anonymous source of the story told Newsweek he was no longer sure he had read the Quoran flushing reference in the particular document he said he had. Not that it didn't happen. A Pentagon official read the entire story before it was printed, and didn't challenge the Quoran story, although he did question some other things. A reasonable editor would conclude by that, I think, that the Pentagon did not object to the Quoran part of the report. I think Newsweek is being scapegoated at this point, frankly. The same story has been reported elsewhere, and the list of reported humiliations against Muslim prisoners based on their religion at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo is quite long.