Newsweek responds...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7857407/site/newsweek/
...with yet more anonymous sources and allegations.
"Internal FBI E-mails," which Newsweek doesn't provide. It's a good guess that we'll never know the source of those E-mails either.
A "SouthCom investigation that found that Gitmo interrogators had flushed a Qur'an down a toilet." According to the Military, they're still looking for those findings. So where is this investigative report? Newsweek doesn't have it. [Perfect]
A phalanx of "senior government," "defense," and "military" officials and "diplomats" who, of course, will forever be incognito (or in Newsweek's imagination)
And by my reading, here's the kicker: Now that his article has come under heavy scrutiny with Real military investigations determining whether he's lying, Mr. Isikoff now decides to find a lawyer defending 13 Yemeni prisoners, who by the way, stand accused of terrorism and links to Al Qaeda (he didn't mention that, of course). And what do you think these innocent-till-proven-guilty terrorists said (as if Isikoff intends to give our SERVICEMEN that benefit of the doubt!).
That's right. They just happen to remember that there was an incident about a Koran in the toilet. Only Mr. Newsweek forgot to ask them about this BEFORE he printed his story about the Koran in the toilet. [The Cart comes AFTER the horse, buddy]
And just so we get the right idea, the rest is yet more agonizing over America's insensitivity towards the Koran. The biased tone is also a little much. ("cryptically"?, give me a break)
And by the way, if you don't already know: The author of this list of explanations/allegations is the editor of Mr. Isikoff's piece. I might have been willing to overlook this. But then he slithers out of responsibility with Anonymous sources to avoid explaining how Newsweek could have made these charges with so little to go on.
Well, draw your own conclusions...
"This is what the U.S. is doing," exclaimed Khan, "desecrating the Qur'an."
Revel said: "It looks like there may be a reason to buy the story."
Give me a break...