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Newsweek backtracks on Koran claims ("People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said.")
The Australian ^
| 5/17
Posted on 05/16/2005 1:15:52 PM PDT by ambrose
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:15:55 PM PDT
by
ambrose
To: ambrose
Ten years ago, Newsweak would have gotten away with it.
I love the Internet.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:16:52 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Controlled substance laws created the federal health care monopoly and fund terrorism.)
To: ambrose
I'm sure the MOOOOSlims treat the Bible with the utmost respect.
To: ambrose
How about the Newsweak people responsible for this go to Afghanistan and apologize IN PERSON. Just an idea.
To: ambrose
>>US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was forced to declare that mistreatment of the Koran was "abhorrent" to right-thinking Americans.<<
Well gee. Apparently Ms. Rice really IS a politician.
I guess I am "left thinking" in her book.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:21:04 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: ambrose
Finally an Administration spokesman shows some fire......hear that Scott McCellan.
"People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?" - Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita on the unnamed source
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:21:24 PM PDT
by
Dog
(Freeping since the crack of doom....)
To: Bigturbowski
I'm puzzled why the big deal and rioting over this particular report; there've been news reports alleging Quran desecration for quite some time - long before the Newsweek debacle.
SW
To: ambrose
A report in last week's Newsweek sparked riots in Afghanistan that spread across the Muslim world, leading to the deaths of at least 14 people and injuries to more than 120. Muslims kill Muslims at the mere suggestion of an affront to their religion.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:22:05 PM PDT
by
konaice
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Bigturbowski
All alone, without any American Troops guarding them?
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:22:35 PM PDT
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: ambrose
Oh, for God's sake . . . it's a freakin' BOOK.
Get the hell over it.
(And yes, I'd say the same thing were a Bible involved.)
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:23:08 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(End women's suffrage! Hasn't the country suffered enough?)
To: ambrose
("People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said.")
Actually they are dead because of an extreme and irrational response to an allegation, that even if true, should not provoke this kind of insane reaction.
That said, I say we deport the NEWSWEAK folks involved to Afganisan.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:23:16 PM PDT
by
NavVet
(“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
To: ambrose
At this moment, John Edwards is on a jet plane headed for Afghanistan........
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:23:28 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(I woke up this morning and discovered my Memory Foam mattress had Alzheimer's......)
To: ambrose
The article last week said the claims about the Koran, which previously had been aired by other news organisations, would be validated by an inquiry report into the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. It was based on conversations with a senior American official who said he had seen mention of the Koran incident in the report. However, on checking with the source since publication, Newsweek said the official no longer could be sure that he had remembered correctly. I don't get all this.... Isn't it illegal to talk to the press about presumeably classified stuff? Why doesn't the FBI try to track this A-hole down and prosecute him for talking at all whether the story is true or not?
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:25:25 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: ambrose
The article last week said the claims about the Koran, which previously had been aired by other news organisations, would be validated by an inquiry report into the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. I don't recall any other news organisations "airing" this previously, does anyone else?
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:25:52 PM PDT
by
Ignatz
(Yeah! Whatever Laz sez goez double for me! (The coolest Freepers have Z's in their names))
To: Xenalyte
Anyone who has ever stayed at a motel knows that those Gideon Bibles are "desecrated" all the time. It is a bloody book.
Worshiping an object (a book) like these Muslims do borders on idolatry.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:27:03 PM PDT
by
ambrose
(NEWSWEAK LIED .... AND PEOPLE DIED)
To: konaice
Really...if tossing a Koran into the toilet can get fanatical Muslims to kill other fanatical Muslims then let's have a huge book burning!!
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:28:44 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Rats theme song: "Whatever it is...I'm AGAINST it!!!")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ten years ago, Newsweak would have gotten away with it.
Amen to that.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:28:47 PM PDT
by
keat
(Click to hear theme song)
To: Rodney King
I wonder if this is the same senior American official in the State Dept that smeared Bolton.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:28:55 PM PDT
by
mware
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche........ "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
To: Rodney King
I wonder if this is the same senior American official in the State Dept that smeared Bolton.
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posted on
05/16/2005 1:28:55 PM PDT
by
mware
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche........ "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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