Imran Khan has demanded an unconditional apology from the US government for the desecration of the Holy Quran by US Army at Guantanamo Bay. He made the demand during an emergency press conference at the PTI?s Central Secretariat in Islamabad on Friday. Akbar S. Babar, Central Information Secretary of the party was also present during the press conference.
http://www.insaf.org.pk/press/2003Jan/pres...se_2005may6.htm
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These stupid radical pinheads will believe anything. The story was false.....
Newsweek says erred in Koran desecration report By David Morgan
2 hours, 49 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article.
"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," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on U.S. newsstands on Monday.
Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Koran down the toilet.
The report sparked angry and violent protests across the Muslim world from Afghanistan, where 16 were killed and more than 100 injured, to Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza. In the past week it was condemned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and by the Arab League. On Sunday, Afghan Muslim clerics threatened to call for a holy war against the United States.
The weekly news magazine said in its May 23 edition that the information had come from a "knowledgeable government source" who told Newsweek that a military report on abuse at Guantanamo Bay said interrogators flushed at least one copy of the Koran down a toilet in a bid to make detainees talk.
But Newsweek said the source later told the magazine he could not be certain he had seen an account of the Koran incident in the military report and that it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts.
The acknowledgment by the magazine came amid a continuing heightened scrutiny of the U.S. media, which has seen a rash of news organizations fire reporters and admit that stories were fabricated or plagiarized.
The Pentagon told the magazine the report was wrong last Friday, saying it had investigated earlier allegations of Koran desecration from detainees and found them "not credible."
The May 9 report, which appeared as a brief item by Michael Isikoff and John Barry in the magazine's "Periscope" section, had a huge international impact, sparking the protests from Muslims who consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence.
Desecration of the Koran is punishable by death in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
U.S. officials opened an investigation but maintained that members of the Guantanamo security force were sensitive to the religious beliefs and practices of the detainees in U.S. custody.
U.S. national security adviser Stephen Hadley earlier on Sunday stressed the report had not been confirmed. "First of all, we don't know that it's true," Hadley said on CNN's "Late Edition."
"We've heard these reports before -- if it turns out to be true, obviously we will take action against those responsible," he said.
In January, British prisoners released from Guantanamo said guards threw their Korans into toilets and tried to force them to give up their faith. Human rights lawyer Tom Wilner, who represents several Kuwaiti prisoners at Guantanamo, said in February that his clients told him their Korans were thrown on the floor, stepped on and thrown into toilets at Guantanamo.
Newsweek's Whitaker said that when the magazine first heard of the Koran allegation from its source, staff approached two Defense Department officials. One declined to comment, while the other challenged a different aspect of the May 9 story but did not dispute the Koran charge.
The magazine said other news organizations had already aired charges of Koran 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," Whitaker said.
"Our original source later said he couldn't be certain about reading of the alleged Koran incident in the report we cited," he wrote.
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Newsweek says erred in Koran desecration report By David Morgan
2 hours, 49 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article.
"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," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on U.S. newsstands on Monday.
Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Koran down the toilet.
The report sparked angry and violent protests across the Muslim world from Afghanistan, where 16 were killed and more than 100 injured, to Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza. In the past week it was condemned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and by the Arab League. On Sunday, Afghan Muslim clerics threatened to call for a holy war against the United States.
The weekly news magazine said in its May 23 edition that the information had come from a "knowledgeable government source" who told Newsweek that a military report on abuse at Guantanamo Bay said interrogators flushed at least one copy of the Koran down a toilet in a bid to make detainees talk.
But Newsweek said the source later told the magazine he could not be certain he had seen an account of the Koran incident in the military report and that it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts.
The acknowledgment by the magazine came amid a continuing heightened scrutiny of the U.S. media, which has seen a rash of news organizations fire reporters and admit that stories were fabricated or plagiarized.
The Pentagon told the magazine the report was wrong last Friday, saying it had investigated earlier allegations of Koran desecration from detainees and found them "not credible."
The May 9 report, which appeared as a brief item by Michael Isikoff and John Barry in the magazine's "Periscope" section, had a huge international impact, sparking the protests from Muslims who consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence.
Desecration of the Koran is punishable by death in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
U.S. officials opened an investigation but maintained that members of the Guantanamo security force were sensitive to the religious beliefs and practices of the detainees in U.S. custody.
U.S. national security adviser Stephen Hadley earlier on Sunday stressed the report had not been confirmed. "First of all, we don't know that it's true," Hadley said on CNN's "Late Edition."
"We've heard these reports before -- if it turns out to be true, obviously we will take action against those responsible," he said.
In January, British prisoners released from Guantanamo said guards threw their Korans into toilets and tried to force them to give up their faith. Human rights lawyer Tom Wilner, who represents several Kuwaiti prisoners at Guantanamo, said in February that his clients told him their Korans were thrown on the floor, stepped on and thrown into toilets at Guantanamo.
Newsweek's Whitaker said that when the magazine first heard of the Koran allegation from its source, staff approached two Defense Department officials. One declined to comment, while the other challenged a different aspect of the May 9 story but did not dispute the Koran charge.
The magazine said other news organizations had already aired charges of Koran 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," Whitaker said.
"Our original source later said he couldn't be certain about reading of the alleged Koran incident in the report we cited," he wrote.
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Yes yes and I am sure that if no one took pictures at Abu Ghraib, you would have dismissed it the same why.
Let me give you right wing american assoles some bad news: you have no credibility because you are lying son's of bitches. Every aspect of the "war on terror" is a lie, from what really happened on 9/11 (who, what, how, why) to iraq and now the impending war against iran.
Let me give you right wing american assoles some bad news: you have no credibility because you are lying son's of bitches. Every aspect of the "war on terror" is a lie, from what really happened on 9/11 (who, what, how, why) to iraq and now the impending war against iran.
QUOTE (OsManli @ May 16 2005, 08:21 AM)
you have no credibility
That is the crux of the matter, whether the Qur'an desecration stories are true or not the Bush administration has so little credibility no one will believe them anyway.
The damage has already been done.
If the Qu'ran was in fact desecrated the US should absolutely and prompty apologize.
Whether or not it was desecrated remains to be seen.
Whether or not it was desecrated remains to be seen.
QUOTE (Ben-T @ May 16 2005, 12:42 AM)
If the Qu'ran was in fact desecrated the US should absolutely and prompty apologize.
Whether or not it was desecrated remains to be seen.
Whether or not it was desecrated remains to be seen.
I'm guessing Newsweek refutes the story and no evidence of Koran desecration is found. Just a hunch.
Of course they may surprise me and find a couple of low level scapegoats in Gitmo.
QUOTE (C.Woww @ May 15 2005, 07:43 PM)
I'm guessing Newsweek refutes the story and no evidence of Koran desecration is found. Just a hunch.
Of course they may surprise me and find a couple of low level scapegoats in Gitmo.
Of course they may surprise me and find a couple of low level scapegoats in Gitmo.
Saw this yesterday. MARK
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7857407/site/newsweek/
OUTRAGEOUS, 16 people die because some over zealot reporter and editor includes a story about an alleged desacration of the Koran as a part of a larger story on alleged prisoner abuses at Gito.
I ask them what justice, humanity or public good or need to know was served by a story that had only been alleged.
I ask you could not even a simpleton of the most illiterate order have foreseen and predicted the outcome of such an inflammitory story.
Did it help one detainee, was it a crime, was there any public good or need to know served by this one exclusive story?
Now they say that their report relied on a lawyer for 15 Somali's suing the US and a usually reliable government source's "SILENCE" on the question as in yet another Dan Rather school of journalistic venting of a story.
Is this not more of the "Dan Rather Standard of Journalism" where being first is top priority over the facts and the truth.
I would donate money to a lawyer who would sue them for the lifes they cause to be forfieted by mistake.
Lives I know are no friend of America, but did not deserve to die over a reporter, editors and or magazine's MISTAKEN JUDGEMENT AS TO THE FACTS.
They said other news organization reported this story before in Russia and some other place. But I noticed somehow no one died because of it, seems to me more of this DAN RATHER GATE stuff of self denial.
That is all!
I ask them what justice, humanity or public good or need to know was served by a story that had only been alleged.
I ask you could not even a simpleton of the most illiterate order have foreseen and predicted the outcome of such an inflammitory story.
Did it help one detainee, was it a crime, was there any public good or need to know served by this one exclusive story?
Now they say that their report relied on a lawyer for 15 Somali's suing the US and a usually reliable government source's "SILENCE" on the question as in yet another Dan Rather school of journalistic venting of a story.
Is this not more of the "Dan Rather Standard of Journalism" where being first is top priority over the facts and the truth.
I would donate money to a lawyer who would sue them for the lifes they cause to be forfieted by mistake.
Lives I know are no friend of America, but did not deserve to die over a reporter, editors and or magazine's MISTAKEN JUDGEMENT AS TO THE FACTS.
They said other news organization reported this story before in Russia and some other place. But I noticed somehow no one died because of it, seems to me more of this DAN RATHER GATE stuff of self denial.
That is all!
QUOTE (dixon76710 @ May 16 2005, 04:32 AM)
Interesting. It seems obvious to me that some people in high places think Arabs/muslims are just a bunch of camel-jockeys. It would clear the air if they just come right out and say so.
I would blame people like Imran Khan for the deaths. Pakistanis and Afghans dont read Newsweek. People like Imran are using the incident to incite the masses. Almost Ironic. Imran is a playboy cricket star in Pakistan. Married to a Jewish girl from a wealthy British Family. Fathered a kid with another wealthy socialite......... And he is concerned about desecration of the Koran??
These people blow up Christian churches during sermons and yet they think the text that inspires them to do so needs to be respected by us????? MARK
These people blow up Christian churches during sermons and yet they think the text that inspires them to do so needs to be respected by us????? MARK
QUOTE (dixon76710 @ May 16 2005, 02:02 PM)
I would blame people like Imran Khan for the deaths. Pakistanis and Afghans dont read Newsweek. People like Imran are using the incident to incite the masses. Almost Ironic. Imran is a playboy cricket star in Pakistan. Married to a Jewish girl from a wealthy British Family. Fathered a kid with another wealthy socialite......... And he is concerned about desecration of the Koran??
These people blow up Christian churches during sermons and yet they think the text that inspires them to do so needs to be respected by us????? MARK
These people blow up Christian churches during sermons and yet they think the text that inspires them to do so needs to be respected by us????? MARK
I can't believe the guards at Gitmo would do anything so insensitive. Newsweek must have it wrong.
And I can't speculate about Imram Khan's motives. He seems like an articulate well-educated fellow. Perhaps he wants a higher profile in the Muslim world for some reason. Or maybe he's running against Musharraf.
Blowing up churches is as bad as blowing up mosques and synagogues. Let's hope we don't see any more of it.
QUOTE (dixon76710 @ May 16 2005, 02:02 PM)
I would blame people like Imran Khan for the deaths. Pakistanis and Afghans dont read Newsweek. People like Imran are using the incident to incite the masses. Almost Ironic. Imran is a playboy cricket star in Pakistan. Married to a Jewish girl from a wealthy British Family. Fathered a kid with another wealthy socialite......... And he is concerned about desecration of the Koran??
These people blow up Christian churches during sermons and yet they think the text that inspires them to do so needs to be respected by us????? MARK
These people blow up Christian churches during sermons and yet they think the text that inspires them to do so needs to be respected by us????? MARK
How dare right wing filth, who support a president who was on drugs, alcohol, was AWOL, blew up frogs as a boy, smear decent world leaders?
Mr. Khan has devoted his life to helping people who building hospitals all over Pakistan, he divorced the jew wife and is living a pure sincere life of piety.
The president used drugs and alcohol! OMGZ OMGZ OMGZ OMGZ.
He was AWOL? Really? Oh no sorry that charge fell through. Read: Rathergate.
He blew up frogs as a child? How would you possibly know this? Furthermore if he did, who gives a ######?
He divorced his wife because she was Jewish? Evidence only of his status as human filth.
Os' whole post is almost a perfect description of how alien his mind is to the concept of Liberty.
He used drugs and alcohol! GET HIM!
She's a Jew!?!?! DIVORCE HER!
You sir, are a Knave and a Villain.
He was AWOL? Really? Oh no sorry that charge fell through. Read: Rathergate.
He blew up frogs as a child? How would you possibly know this? Furthermore if he did, who gives a ######?
He divorced his wife because she was Jewish? Evidence only of his status as human filth.
Os' whole post is almost a perfect description of how alien his mind is to the concept of Liberty.
He used drugs and alcohol! GET HIM!
She's a Jew!?!?! DIVORCE HER!
You sir, are a Knave and a Villain.
QUOTE (OsManli @ May 17 2005, 12:37 AM)
Mr. Khan has devoted his life to helping people who building hospitals all over Pakistan, he divorced the jew wife and is living a pure sincere life of piety.
Yeah right, and you had a pork roast for dinner. Get some help dude or back up your bullshit with a suiside vest. Don't want to miss out on those virgins do you?
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