Newsweek: Smoke and Heat on Guantanamo
Published May 18, 2005
Obviously, reports of US soldiers and other personnel treating the Koran with a lack of respect — not to mention the people to whom the copies belonged — have been circulating throughout the Muslim world and the western one for several years, a fact that makes questionable the contention that Newsweek has damaged our country's image among Muslims. As a number of polls have shown, our image is already very close to being as damaged as it can possibly get.
What does seem to have happened is that various actors in Afghanistan and Pakistan seized upon the Newsweek item to further inflame existing unrest in the two countries, and that the Newsweek reporters were ill served by their source, by the Pentagon official who reviewed the item before it was published and by their own reliance on their previous relationship with their source.
And at the end of it all, we're still left with questions about what investigations have been completed and reviewed by whom, and whether or not the allegations made by numerous Guantanamo detainees and a US government official, are true. Somewhere, behind the smoke and the heat, lie the answers.
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Weldon Berger is a writer in Hawaii and runs BTC News, the only blog with a White House correspondent.
- Newsweek: Smoke and Heat on Guantanamo
- Published: May 18, 2005
- Type: News
- Section: Politics
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***How many "Bibles" have these deranged idiots burned, spit on, sh*t on, and otherwise disecreted? Do we ever even hear about that? This is a two way street and I'll bet "Bible" disecretion takes place a heck of alot more than that of the "Koran" ever does!
***These hypocrites and their cohorts (Dollar Hungry Newsweek) never say anything about that. These are criminals who'll say anything to create hatred and hype their people into a frenzy, just so they can have a bloodbath party, blame America, and Watch. Newsweek knowingly puts this crap out to create news as much as any tabloid.
***Newsweek needs to get their head out of the cesspool of human waste these criminals are as it makes them one as well.
***They should do a corresponding story from the oposite side (bible discretion). But do they? No! Because that doesn't sell and wouldn't lead to the bloodshed they seek and pictures of it on their cover. Us "infidels" (rest of the world)are not so crude, rude, and insensitive as they would like to portray us, and we wouldn't respond in a way that would make them any dollars.
***Newsweek is an insult to american intelligence and should be punished or sued by somebody in some way as they are as much responsible as there lying informants. Maybe then they wouldn't so readily help pump these morons into killing themselves.