Alert: Springer on AAR covering Newsweek Debacle

[BlueEyedSon]

[Oreo]

1. The US admitted the riots weren't caused by the article

Get the word out!!

http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive/2005/May/13-299433.html
Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran Handling, General Says
Army investigating allegations of mishandling at Guantanamo Bay facility





By Jacquelyn S. Porth
Washington File Staff Writer



Washington – The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says a report from Afghanistan suggests that rioting in Jalalabad on May 11 was not necessarily connected to press reports that the Quran might have been desecrated in the presence of Muslim prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Air Force General Richard Myers told reporters at the Pentagon May 12 that he has been told that the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, rioting was related more to the ongoing political reconciliation process in Afghanistan than anything else.

According to initial reports, the situation in Jalalabad began on May 10 with peaceful student protests reacting to a report in Newsweek magazine that U.S. military interrogators questioning Muslim detainees at the Guantanamo detention center “had placed Quran s on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book.” By the following day the protests in the city had turned violent with reports of several individuals killed, dozens wounded, and widespread looting of government, diplomatic and nongovernmental assets.

However, Myers said an after-action report provided by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, commander of the Combined Forces in Afghanistan, indicated that the political violence was not, in fact, connected to the magazine report.

Meanwhile, Myers said the U.S. military has assigned Army General Bantz Craddock to investigate allegations about the handling of the Quran at Guantanamo. Craddock brings the full weight of his responsibility as commander of the U.S. Southern Command to this effort.

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[chelsea0011]

3. You know. I get Newsweek delivered weekly and I never noticed the article

but thousands in Afghanistan organized a protest that resulted in riots.

[Oreo]

5. It's an obvious ploy to get attention off of...

the filibuster, the cessna scare, the british documents, etc etc etc

The media took it hook line and sinker.

[ClassWarrior]

2. Fuck the Newsweak article - keep your eye on the prize.

The Downing Street Memo is THE SMOKING GUN!! We get these Corporate Media Whores to cover it, we're well on our way to taking down Bushco.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3670883

NGU.

[Oreo]

4. You're right but....

If the media is made more useless by strong-arming from the administration, there's no way in hell they'll push the British documents (not memos!)