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?
I agree to a lot of what you said, Newsweek HAD to realize what this story would prompt from Islam, which is an issue in itself that needs serious attention. Just more of the rotten leftist Media that go out of their way to criticize and undermine the President and the Iraq war. That said, I also think we shouldn't take our eye off the greater danger, the Murderers themselves. It's not the Media's lies that actually kill people, it's the Murderers and their warped Religion that espouses murder.