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the exact nature of the allegations or whether they were even true.

It was a story last week from an Arab source which claimed American soldiers flushed a Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo. The story looked phony for several reasons, not the least of which was the source.

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The US State Department said on Tuesday that the Pentagon was looking into a report in Newsweek magazine that interrogators at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, kept copies of the Koran in toilets to annoy prisoners.

The State Department is right not to trust Newsweek.

The Boston Globe, by the way, was among the newspaper that ran the porn photos as genuine abuse. The Guardian in England was the paper that first ran the posed shots of military urinating on "prisonsers".

The established media of the West is no sure sign of honesty in reporting.

Didn't some feminist make claims about America "raping" the Middle East and it was translated literally resulting in revenge murders in Pakistan?