[newzjunkey]

Doesn't matter when the story was first published and that it appeared in Newsweek's *sister* publication, the WA Post. What matters is when the story actually caught fire.

To let Newsweek off the hook you would have to know that the WA Post version from March got the same level of coverage in the Mid-East as the Newsweek version did. Anything less than this is just stirring the pot and, perhaps, *worse* since the Post & Newsweek are from the same company.

[newzjunkey]

For a professional publication, a journalistic publication, to have published this story without any regard for their precious "cultural sensitivity" bespeaks volumes.

Anyone with even a passing understanding of Islam and Muslim culture knows how shocking this story would be to that culture. As I said in another post... for them it's the social equivalent of an atomic bomb in D.C.

Why didn't Newsweek / WA Post seek to COOPERATE with the Pentagon and State Dept. on this story in the interest of national security in a time of war? They were either exceedingly irresponsible or deliberately so.

Were they so greedy that they couldn't resist regardless of the damage to the nation and war effort, much less Mid-East deaths? Was there a criminal disregard for safety?