NEWSWEEK'S 'KORAN IN THE TOILET' STORY
Henk Ruyssenaars | 17.05.2005 15:59 | Culture | Globalisation | Repression
Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post, and nobody at Newsweek has been fired or even reprimanded...
FPF-May 18th 2005 - After the Abu Ghraib pictures, [
http://tinyurl.com/2stce] the illegal invasion*, shooting, bombing, napalming [CNN*], jailing, raping, torturing and the killing of so many human beings in so many countries, the US neocons think we believe their and Rice's rant about RESPECT? - [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bk243] - This following story is informative enough to understand their scared rant: 'Newsweek Got Gitmo Right' - is written by Calgacus: "Contrary to White House spin, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek on May 9, 2005, are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States.
Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Koran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.
Prior to the Newsweek article, the New York Times reported a Guantanamo insider asserting that the commander of the facility was compelled by prisoner protests to address the problem and issue an apology. - [end quote] Pls. read more at Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/cfll3 'Accuracy in Media' Urges Housecleaning at Newsweek
May 16, 2005 - WASHINGTON - Accuracy in Media (AIM)* said today that blood is on the hands of Newsweek magazine for its unsubstantiated "Koran in the toilet" story that sparked anti-American global riots. AIM editor Cliff Kincaid said that, "Sixteen people were killed and more than 100 were wounded as a result of Newsweek's rush to get this story into print. But nobody at Newsweek has been fired or even reprimanded."
Kincaid said Newsweek's correction will never catch up with the original false report and that countless Americans may die as a result.
Newsweek has also done enormous damage to the cause of democracy in the Middle East, he added.
AIM noted that Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post company and that Post chairman Donald E. Graham has a duty to clean house at the newsweekly.
Ironically, noted Kincaid, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas has been teaching a course at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government on "the ethical, moral and practical issues that recur in news delivery."
Kincaid commented, "It looks like he flunked his own course."
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FPF@Chello.nl Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s office is suppressing data, showing that the number of major resistance attacks against the US worldwide exploded from 175 in 2003 to 625 in 2004, the highest number since the Cold War began to wane in 1985. - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/c8fwd *'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan in a BBC interview: txt+video - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v * CNN confirms use of Napalm by Coalition Forces - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/3ycjf * Sued: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies: Url.
http://tinyurl.com/3tgo3 * Help the troops come home! Url.:
http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ HR
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17.05.2005 17:06
Richard
Richard: we apologize conc. US & other's war crimes
21.05.2005 06:27
Dear handicapped Friend!
The FPF is devastated that somebody - most probably in Braille - has written the item on all those US war crimes to you, without further explaining it.
They shouldn't do that to someone who is totally deaf and blind, and who clearly has no clue about what's going on in the world, like the yesterday by Bush
announced ''Rapid Deployment Genocide Forces''. [
As usual in the used 'Newspeak', the flying murder squads will most likely be called "Peace Brigades" or something similarly innocent.
The New York Times published - as the first part in a series - yesterday one of those pieces they'll later on - in an International War Crimes Tribunal - want to
refer to as: "We have been critical: look at what we wrote !"
This is a practice I always call "alibi-journalism': spreading via their media 90 percent propaganda for the genocide, and when accountability is forced, refer
to the 'Red Cross' sticker or similar on one's gun...claiming an alibi and innocence.
The six thousand word article concerned the torture and following slow murder of two innocent Afghan human beings which had been taken prisoner and the title is: "In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths". - The story is written by Tim Golden. Your nurses will find the NYTimes item here: Url.
Yesterday too, the pictures of a mostly undressed Saddam in captivity were front paged in another New York propaganda sheet, despicable warmonger Murdoch's Post.
So; why not let one of the nurses write to you in Braille that the man who twice stole the US 'elections' was annoyed.
No, the US so-called 'president' was not annoyed with the torture and genocide as described a million times by now (outside of the US) - Bush and his neocon
string pullers have been advocating the massacres all along, killing hundred thousands of fellow human beings, including more than seventeen hundred (1.700) of their own poor mislead US-people in uniform.
Sowing death and destruction everywhere
According to Unicef and the American Red Cross up to one million Iraqi's died already earlier under the so called 'sanctions', of which more than half a million
- repeat: more than half million - babies and small children up to five years of age. The zionist woman which was brought up in communist Yugoslavia, and
than transferred later via Israel on to the US, to play the role as Foreign Affairs minister - this woman called Madeleine Albright was asked by Leslie Stahl on
CBS's program Sixty Minutes about this, and stated that from the US's warped point of view: "The price was worth it."
No, Bush said he was angry ''because those unflattering pictures of Saddam might be a breach of the rules of the Geneva conventions, concerning the human
treatment and dignity of prisoners.''
It's a pity Bush and the other war criminals - nor you apparently - can see the mountain of torture pictures and witnesses, or hear the barking and snarls of the
Rottweiler attack dogs just before they bite the prisoners. This is one of the hundred thousands of pictures and can maybe be described to you. -
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Why, you don't even hear a toilet flush when the Koran, the Holy Book of one billion Muslim believers, goes down the pipes in one of the infamous American
torture and concentration camps. You should - by the people running the clinic you're in - have been better informed about the present American/Israeli/British
and Dutch participation in the genocide going on.
But, if you're not as bodily and mentally handicapped as we think you must be, than the question remains on what propaganda-planet you vegetate, or who's
paying you to write those stupidities.
Whatever, and for your own sake too:
get better - and better informed - soon...!
Henk R.
P.S. - For the nurses: please write clearly that we do not want to make fun of somebody who may be severely handicapped in such a way!
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