[Clara Lou]

That's the thing about apologies-- they can't undo damage already done. Dead is dead.

[paul_fromatlanta]

That's the thing about apologies-- they can't undo damage already done. Dead is dead.

If the story is wrong and that makes newsweek to blame for the deaths...

Does that mean that the interrogator would be responsible for the deaths if the story was true? I don't buy that.

There is limit to how responsible we can be for what crazy people do.

I'm not excusing Newsweek - if they published a false story that damaged America's credibility there ought to be a penalty... but we don't want to get in the habit of blaming Americans for when Muslims decide Mohammad has been insulted and kill each other.

Remember this story?

The Reverend Jerry Falwell, the conservative American Baptist preacher, has apologised for calling the Prophet Mohammed a "terrorist". His original remarks, broadcast last week on the US television programme 60 Minutes, sparked outrage among many Muslims around the world and set off sectarian riots in India that left at least eight dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2323897.stm