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How a Fire Broke Out (NEWSWEEK source is now unsure)
Newsweek ^ | 05/15/05 | Evan Thomas

Posted on 05/15/2005 2:56:45 AM PDT by Pikamax

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To: MEG33
Isikofi should be thrown in the cooler till he divulges the name of the "senior government official" who was his original source.

Then, when identified, the "senior government official" should be thrown in the hoosegow till he divulges where he "read" the toilet incident report.

Then, Newsweak's editors should be thrown in the in the slammer till they divulge how much they contribute to leftist Democrats every election.

This is a sickening and horrendous foul-up on the part of this rag. I hope we'll see some form of retribution. One way is for everyone to stop sending subscription dollars to Newsweak. It's madness to subscribe to any one of the mainstream socialist, communist media. You are feeding the hand that bites you.

Leni

21 posted on 05/15/2005 5:14:17 AM PDT by MinuteGal ("The Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop !" (Fallujah Terrorists)
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To: GeneralStorm

Isikoff lied, people died.


22 posted on 05/15/2005 5:15:00 AM PDT by YCTHouston (Come and take it.)
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To: MinuteGal

I hope the rag's advertisers think twice.


23 posted on 05/15/2005 5:15:34 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: YCTHouston

Isikoff lied, people died.
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I wish I knew how to make my own bumper stickers. That would be a good one.


24 posted on 05/15/2005 5:19:54 AM PDT by KStorm
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To: YCTHouston
If the lie's exposed
Isikoff is hosed

Leni

25 posted on 05/15/2005 5:20:08 AM PDT by MinuteGal ("The Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop !" (Fallujah Terrorists)
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To: G.Mason
These false and misleading stories are not rare events.

The MSM's socialist goals are so well entrenched that it needs no command system to guide it. It's a perfect 'perpetual-motion' device designed to convert a capitalist republic into a socialist democracy by 24/7 socio-political indoctrination.

26 posted on 05/15/2005 5:32:23 AM PDT by johnny7 (Ever wonder what's the 'crust' in 'Ol Crusty'?)
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To: hershey
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In the meantime, as part of his ongoing reporting on the detainee-abuse story, Isikoff had contacted a New York defense lawyer, Marc Falkoff, who is representing 13 Yemeni detainees at Guantánamo. According to Falkoff's declassified notes, a mass-suicide attempt—when 23 detainees tried to hang or strangle themselves in August 2003—was triggered by a guard's dropping a Qur'an and stomping on it. One of Falkoff's clients told him, "Another detainee tried to kill himself after the guard took his Qur'an and threw it in the toilet." A U.S. military spokesman, Army Col. Brad Blackner, dismissed the claims as unbelievable. "If you read the Al Qaeda training manual, they are trained to make allegations against the infidels," he said.

IMO, Isikoff and Falkoff are card carrying members of the enemy domestic. Koff with their heads.

27 posted on 05/15/2005 5:34:55 AM PDT by auboy
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To: MEG33
They are rioting and killing on a brief statement that their 'holy book' may have been mistreated - even possibly by the owners of that book.

Libs/dims had no problem with elephant dung on a portrait of the Virgin Mary - that was "art".

28 posted on 05/15/2005 5:42:03 AM PDT by mathluv
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To: 5050 no line
Just the barest hint again of Islamic double standards?

Only DOUBLE? These guys have as many standards as suits their purpose, no more, no less.

Just like this Koran thing. Islam supposedly abjures "idols", yet here they are venerating a book! They aren't fooling anybody. They are insane and we all know it.

Islam is not so much a religion but a system of mental and emotional abuse and manipulation designed to turn human beings into animals.

29 posted on 05/15/2005 5:44:55 AM PDT by John Valentine (Whoop dee doo)
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To: hershey

Isikoff has blood on his hands. Evan Thomas and the fellow travellers at the Washington Post will supply the soap and handtowells, but there is no escaping the stain.


30 posted on 05/15/2005 5:57:56 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: johnny7
The saddest part of this John, is the fact that many here do not consider the Democrat Party and their enablers the enemy.

How many posts have you read where you see ... "when are the Democrats going to wake up", or " don't they realize how stupid they sound". As if the Democrats, etal, are simply poor misled stooges and doing this by pure accident, or by lack of deliberate thought.


That, in it self, is bad enough, but to have the Congress, who is privy to more information about the internal anti-America design to destroy Her than you or I, and yet remain silent, means to me that they are part and parcel of this process.

How's that for an eternal optimist, who has become a doubting Thomas?

31 posted on 05/15/2005 6:02:32 AM PDT by G.Mason ( Save the Republic from the shallow, demagogic sectarians.)
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To: MinuteGal
"...This is a sickening and horrendous foul-up on the part of this rag.

Not at all.

A foul-up is something done by mistake. Therefore to be considered a foul-up, one would have to assume this was not done intentionally, but in error.

32 posted on 05/15/2005 6:09:23 AM PDT by G.Mason ( Save the Republic from the shallow, demagogic sectarians.)
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To: hershey

Oh boo hoo. The perpetually offended Muslims are rioting. So what else is new? In countries where Judaism and Christianity are regularly debased, people are offended. Cry me a river...


33 posted on 05/15/2005 6:33:33 AM PDT by veronica (CP = Jeffords Republicrats...)
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To: Nick Danger

Excellent


34 posted on 05/15/2005 6:43:53 AM PDT by Cruz
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To: hershey

let's all go to Half Price Books today and buy a copy of the Koran. It's squeezably soft.


35 posted on 05/15/2005 7:16:11 AM PDT by Soliton (Alone with everyone else.)
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To: hershey

-Isikoff has weaseled his way out of scrapes before, but this one has to haunt him.-

It won't.


36 posted on 05/15/2005 7:52:45 AM PDT by AmericanChef
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To: hershey

What's the big deal. I already use the koran for toilet paper.


37 posted on 05/15/2005 7:54:02 AM PDT by jslade ("If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.")
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To: hershey

Let's see Bill Clinton blamed Right Wing Hate Radio and Rush in particular for McVeigh. Where is anyone up on the bully pulpit screaming about NEWSWEEK and the Left Wing Hate machine causing a world wide hate US campaign and undermining our security???????????????HUUUUMMMMMM Inquiring minds want to know. These guy printed a made up lie or at least an "unknown fact" that has caused the death of many and underminds the US. And they wonder why citizens have such a low regard and distrust of what they write and report. They have completely lost all respect. And have forgotton "LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS" and propaganda can kill.


38 posted on 05/15/2005 8:10:46 AM PDT by therut
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To: hershey
Why dispose of the Koran in a private bathroom? There are ways to share the destruction of the Unholy Book with your friends and neighbors. It's way more fun!


Above: Burning the Koran in front of Columbus, OH City Hall, 2004

39 posted on 05/15/2005 8:38:45 AM PDT by montag813
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To: therut

Good post!


40 posted on 05/15/2005 8:41:31 AM PDT by texasmountainman (proud father of a U.S. Marine)
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