Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Stupid Newsweek

Let me see how stupid Newsweek is and how stupid anyone who believes that the retraction of the Koran in the toilet story wasn't a Rovian setup. It has been in the news for a long time and anyone who believes that the story damaged the image of the United States any more than it is already damaged is a fool.
I stole all of these links from Corrente
and they have even more.


Yorkshire Post, November 1, 2004 | Tipton Three turn on the trauma for £22m... injected with "unknown substances", and had their Korans thrown into the toilets.


DAILY MAIL (London), October 28, 2004, ED_3RD; Pg. 1; Pg. 2, TIPTON THREE SUE FOR Pounds 22M, DUNCAN GARDHAM... guards threw prisoners' Korans into toilets


DAILY MAIL (London), October 28, 2004, ED_3RD; Pg. 1; Pg. 2, TIPTON THREE SUE FOR Pounds 22M, DUNCAN GARDHAM... guards threw prisoners' Korans into toilets


The Express, October 28, 2004, U.K. 3rd Edition; NEWS; Pg. 4, GUANTANAMO BRITONS WILL SUE US FOR £22M, By Lianne Kolirin... guards threw prisoners' Korans into toilets


Irish News, October 28, 2004, Pg. 26, British men detained at Guantanamo sue US government for rights abuses;... guards threw prisoners' Korans into toilets


Press Association, October 27, 2004, Wednesday, HOME NEWS, GUANTANAMO BRITONS SUE US GOVERNMENT, Mark Sage, PA News, in New York... guards threw prisoners' Korans into toilets


Belfast Telegraph,
August 5, 2004, Father demands release of his British son after claims
of torture at Guantanamo Bay, By Andrew Buncombe in Washington... allegedly threw prisoners' Korans into toilets, while others were injected with ...


Birmingham Post,
August 5, 2004, Thursday, First Edition; NEWS; Pg. 2, TIPTON TRIO CLAIM
THEY WERE TORTURED BY ALLIES, EMMA PINCH A detainee is led by military
police to be interrogated by military officials at Camp X-Ray at the US
Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Shafiq
Rasul... Guards would throw prisoners' Korans into the toilet 'as part of their clear policy to ...


Federal News Service,
August 5, 2004 Thursday, PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT - RELEASED GUANTANAMO
DETAINEES ALLEGE ABUSE (ABC RADIO, AUSTRALIA, 08:25 (GMT+11) AUGUST 05,
2004)... guards would throw detainees' Korans down the toilet and shave them, to try to get them to ...


IPR Strategic Business Information Database, June 28, 2004, THEY ALLEGE ABUSE BY U.S. CAPTORS... at Guantanamo. "They tore the Koran to pieces in front of us, threw it into the toilet," Vakhitov said.


BBC Monitoring International Reports,
June 26, 2004, RUSSIAN TV INTERVIEWS FREED GUANTANAMO PRISONERS...
bucket instead of a toilet. People were in cells, ... ... floor.
(Vahitov) They tore the Koran to pieces in front of us, threw it into the toilet.


The Observer,
March 14, 2004, Observer News Pages, Pg. 5, 5420 words, World
Exclusive: Inside Guantanamo: How we survived jail hell: For two years
the Tipton Three have been silent prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Now, in
this remarkable interview with David Rose, they describe for the first
time the extraordinary story of their journey from the West Midlands to
Camp Delta, David Rose... ... sleeping tents, copies of the Koran would be trampled on by ... ... occasion, thrown into a toilet bucket.

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