Newsweek Lied, People Died

Ticomaya wrote:

blatham wrote:

tico

Question for you this time: have the DoD lied to the Tillman family and to America regarding their son?

From the account I've heard, they seem to think so.

Is it your conception that such a reply gains you anything but disdain?

You continue to prove yourself an ideological hack, tico, afraid to speak truthfully or to apply your own values consistently whether those values are religious or legal.

You have become exactly as interesting to talk to as any wooden-headed puppet.

I was referring to "The City", not New York....

cjhsa wrote:

I was referring to "The City", not New York....

nyc is "the city"...

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

cjhsa wrote:

I was referring to "The City", not New York....

nyc is "the city"...

I got ya city right heah!

Thousands rally in Pakistan in new protests over Koran abuse report

ISLAMABAD, May 27 (AFP) - Thousands of Islamic hardliners launched fresh protests across Pakistan Friday after the United States admitted some guards at Guantanamo Bay had mishandled the Koran, witnesses and party officials said.

Armed and mounted police as well as anti-terrorist commandos watched over several thousand people, including a number of women, who gathered outside the parliament building in Islamabad in response to a call by Islamic parties.

Demonstrators waving anti-US placards and banners also vented their anger in southern Karachi and eastern Lahore, Pakistan's two largest cities, and many other towns around the Islamic republic of 150 million people.

The demonstrations came a day after visiting US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca assured Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf the US would take action if anyone was found guilty of abusing the holy book.

"The US is indulging in desecration of the Koran as part of its anti-Islam policy," Qazi Hussain Ahmed, chief of main Islamic fundamentalist party Jamaat-i-Islami and a senior member of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal alliance of religious parties, told the rally in the capital.

Ahmed said an earlier bomb blast at a Muslim shrine near Islamabad earlier Friday which left at least 19 people dead was "exploded to divert attention from the protest against the United States and to trigger Sunni-Shiite violence."

Liaquat Baloch, deputy chief of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, said the alliance had also contacted Muslim organisations in 34 countries.

In neighbouring Indian-admninistered Kashmir, shops, schools and banks shut in a one-day strike called by Islamic parties, while several hundred Muslims protested outside the US embassy in Malaysia at the alleged abuse.

Back in Pakistan, some 2,000 protesters chanted anti-US slogans in Lahore while a crowd of 800 gathered in the southwestern city of Quetta where protesters trampled on a US flag, witnesses said.

Hundreds of Shiite Muslims gathered in politically volatile Karachi, shouting vitrolic abuse aimed at the United States and Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf, who is a key ally in the what Washington calls its war on terror.

About 100 women clad in Muslim veils and waving placards took to the streets in Peshawar, the main town in deeply conservative North West Frontier Province. A large rally held in the city later was addressed by Pakistani opposition leader and Islamic radical Fazlur Rehman.

Similar demonstrations were held in the central Pakistani cities of Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan, an where angry mob burnt American flags and effigies of President George W. Bush.

Protests erupted across Muslim world after a report in Newsweek magazine early this month that interrogators at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, threw a Koran in a toilet to rattle Muslim inmates.

In neighbouring Afghanistan, violence left 15 people dead.

The US-based magazine retracted the story last week after its source expressed doubts. However the US commander at Guantanamo, Brigadier General Jay Hood, said Thursday investigators had found at least five instances in which guards and interrogators at the base Cuba mishandled the Koran, although there was no "credible evidence" it was flushed in a toilet.

Inquiry finds some Koran 'mishandling'

Since - according to the headline here - Newsweek lied and people died, what will be the one of a new thread: "Brigadier General Jay Hood Lied and ..." ?

Sorry for the confusion.

(And I'm glad to be at least in some cases the origin for your amusement - I wont charge you for that, no panic! :wink: )

You mean, a lawer does something without charging for it?

I was referring to "The City", not New York....

May 27, 2005, 8:09 a.m.
Not-So-Bad Gitmo
There's an alternative report.