Newsweek FUBAR, Epilogue

Posted by Moonage on 27 May 2005 | Tagged as: The Media

The Guantanamo detainee who told an FBI agent in 2002 that U.S. personnel there had flushed a Koran in a toilet retracted his allegation when questioned this month by military investigators, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

"We’ve gone back to the detainee who allegedly made the allegation and he has said it didn’t happen. So the underlying allegation, the detainee himself, within the last two weeks, said that didn’t happen," chief Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told a briefing.

At this point, there is no source, no verification, and no purpose for the claims Newsweek made.  Pathetic.  Newsweek needs to clean house.

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  1. on 27 May 2005 at 10:47 am 1.Jim said …

    That’s funny. GITMO representatives now speak on behalf of the detainees…And by coincidence the detainee who’s welfare depends in great detail on the kindness of these strangers holding him captive now says he ‘mispoke’ about the Koran flushing story…and that’s more credible than Newsweek’s story.

  2. on 27 May 2005 at 2:11 pm 2.Bryan Kerwick said …

    First - The Gitmo detainee said he heard that some guards did that stuff. Secondly - The alleged occurrence took place not at GITMO but Camp X-ray. Thirdly - Newsweek was not interested in facts just allegations they could spin into facts since they hate this President, Hate the Military and hate this war.
    Are we to expect anything less of our mainstream media?
    The media is starting to get a taste of their own medicine wherein the editorial pages making false allegations about American businesses are finding themselves loosing advertising customers, the lifeblood of these newspapers and magazines. Some in the media are already crying censorship. How dare the target of erroneous reporting pull their advertisements. The time has come to pay for their sins and it will be at the cost of their paper/magazine.

  3. on 27 May 2005 at 2:26 pm 3.StormWarning said …

    In no way justifying the shoddy journalism of Newsweek, but we now need to reconcile the current announcement that there were five Koran abuses/mishandlings…

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050527/cm_thenation/32901/nc:742

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/26/quran/

    We can argue for days over whether the “mainstream media” is guilty…I am in no way defending Newsweek’s FUBAR, because it was nothing if it wasn’t shoddy journalism, but then again, how come the reports from declassified FBI documents aren’t being covered (asks Howard Feinman, of the Washington Post - yes, the owners of Newsweek):

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/27/BL2005052700424.html

    So the newly declassified FBI documents showing allegations of U.S. guards abusing the Koran have made a huge splash in the media, right?

    This doesn’t get Newsweek off the hook at all, but it does “beg a question.”

  4. on 27 May 2005 at 11:13 pm 4.Bryan Kerwick said …

    Tossing a Qoran to a prisoner thru the bars, checking thru the book as a matter of tossing a cell, leaving a book on the floor, turning a book over (yes apparently an upside down Qoran is a mishandling). These are examples of how we brutal Americans defile all of Islam.
    The easy solution is to take the damn things away. Folks need to get a life here.

  5. on 28 May 2005 at 12:30 am 5.Moonage said …

    The main problem I have with Newsweek is the very debate we’re having here ( and on TMF ). If the evidence of the story is so hard to pin down as to being legitimate or not, why didn’t Newsweek just sit on it until it all came out? For every example someone gives to support Newsweek, there is just as quick someone to come out and shoot it down. The evidence obviously was not firm enough to support the rebuttal. Shoddy, shoddy journalism.

    I really don’t know the answer to Storm’s question. I think a big part of it is different news media use the other medias as sources to sell their product. If a major cog in that chain runs into problems, it affects them as well. Given the myriad of media “scandals” over the last couple of years, I’ll bet MSM is getting gun shy right about now. All they need to do is get it right. If they stick to presenting verifiable facts as they gather them, they won’t have to worry about blogs and other conspirators out to get them.

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