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To: Sully- who wrote (47227)	5/19/2005 11:59:52 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Like I said, you simply can't get your facts straight. My suspicion is that the many medications whackmode00 is prescribed for what is apparently the unsuccessful treatment of his psychoses substantially interfere with his ability to reason cognitively......ergo...the recurring problem you mentioned....

To: Sully- who wrote (47227)	5/19/2005 3:09:34 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

You're still getting the entire story WRONG. READ IT. UNDERSTAND IT. It was an original source, it was an additional source who vetted it and no one has said this didn't happen. The Pentagon and the WH didn't say squat for 11 whole days. Newsweek's original source said he might have seen it in ANOTHER DOCUMENT NOT THE ONE HE ORIGINALLY CITED. He didn't say he had lied about it or had not seen it. DO YOU GET IT? OMG. You people are hopelessly stupid. Isikoff hammered Clinton. What liberal? What leftist ideologue? Geez Loueeeze. The aggressive ignorance of the knuckle-dragging rightwing is pathetic and actually getting worse. The US of A can't compete against an educated China and India at this rate. You people hold the rest of us back. Can't you go underground and leave the rest of us alone? ====== May 23 issue - Did a report in NEWSWEEK set off a wave of deadly anti-American riots in Afghanistan? That's what numerous news accounts suggested last week as angry Afghans took to the streets to protest reports, linked to us, that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Qur'an while interrogating Muslim terror suspects. We were as alarmed as anyone to hear of the violence, which left at least 15 Afghans dead and scores injured. But I think it's important for the public to know exactly what we reported, why, and how subsequent events unfolded. Two weeks ago, in our issue dated May 9, Michael Isikoff and John Barry reported in a brief item in our Periscope section that U.S. military investigators had found evidence that American guards at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had committed infractions in trying to get terror suspects to talk, including in one case flushing a Qur'an down a toilet. Their information came from a knowledgeable U.S. government source, and before deciding whether to publish it we approached two separate Defense Department officials for comment. One declined to give us a response; the other challenged another aspect of the story but did not dispute the Qur'an charge. Although other major news organizations had aired charges of Qur'an desecration based only on the testimony of detainees, we believed our story was newsworthy because a U.S. official said government investigators turned up this evidence. So we published the item. After several days, newspapers in Pakistan and Afghanistan began running accounts of our story. At that point, as Evan Thomas, Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai report this week, the riots started and spread across the country, fanned by extremists and unhappiness over the economy. Last Friday, a top Pentagon spokesman told us that a review of the probe cited in our story showed that it was never meant to look into charges of Qur'an desecration. The spokesman also said the Pentagon had investigated other desecration charges by detainees and found them "not credible." Our original source later said he couldn't be certain about reading of the alleged Qur'an incident in the report we cited, and said it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts. Top administration officials have promised to continue looking into the charges, and so will we. But 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. —Mark Whitaker Editor's Note: On Monday afternoon, May 16, Whitaker issued the following statement: Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Qur'an abuse at Guantanamo Bay.