The Newsweek story is being Rathergated in the conservative controlled media.
Even though the substance of the story was accurate and the source stands by his statements the documentation cannot be verified so the conservatives jump up and down and say 'see - no story the media just lies.' Problem is there were many other stories from many other sources talking about the desecration of the Koran as part of the psychological harassment published in many other mainstream media. Sources like the New York Times, the UK Guardian, Daily Mirror, Washington Post... conditions just hadn't gotten so bad then it wasn't the spark that ignited the riots in places that would really notice the Koran being trashed. http://rawstory.com/exclusives/newsweek_koran_report_516.htm A soldier who played the part of a POW in an Army training exercise in the 90's said that the instructor concluded with ripping up and kicking the Bible and said it was a standard part of psychologically getting to the prisoners. On 5/16/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 02:03 PM Monday 5/16/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > >Of course now it's beginning to look like even Afghanistan's a lost > cause. > >Messing with the Koran was a stupid, stupid move. > > Does that mean that you believe that the assertions in the _Newsweek_ > story > was accurate, even though they have apparently at least partially backed > away from them? (IOW, they haven't said absolutely that they made them up > or that their source did.) > > > -- Ronn! :) > > -- Gary Denton Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
