Reply #21: Media Blast this

[Oreo]

I demand a retraction from BUSH. They lied (again). Here's my email:

The administration definitely sent its dogs out yesterday. Now the real journalists (those outside of the US) will jump on the story to bring out the facts that it did happen. The biggest teller that this was an administration ploy to take the heat off of themselves for ___insert most recent atrocity by the adminisitration____ is that the article did not cause the riots.

Here is an article from a US government website which says the Newsweek article was NOT the cause of the riots.
This is another step towards the media bowing down to the administration for good. They once again took every word from Bush and his minions as gospel without looking into things further.

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.