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zaj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-05 10:00 PM
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The actual text of the original Newsweek story...
... I've searched around google, and no one seems to have posted the actual text of the Newsweek/Koran story.

Does anyone here know where to find it?
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-05 10:14 PM
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1. Here
Edited on Wed May-25-05 10:15 PM by RobertSeattle
It is strange it is so hard to find (I've looked before too)
It would be a great gotcha too - I bet few RWers who went nuts over this EVER read the original article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7693014/site/newsweek/

May 9 issue - Investigators probing interrogation abuses at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay have confirmed some infractions alleged in internal FBI e-mails that surfaced late last year. Among the previously unreported cases, sources tell NEWSWEEK: interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur'an down a toilet and led a detainee around with a collar and dog leash. An Army spokesman confirms that 10 Gitmo interrogators have already been disciplined for mistreating prisoners, including one woman who took off her top, rubbed her finger through a detainee's hair and sat on the detainee's lap. (New details of sexual abuse—including an instance in which a female interrogator allegedly wiped her red-stained hand on a detainee's face, telling him it was her menstrual blood—are also in a new book to be published this week by a former Gitmo translator.)

These findings, expected in an upcoming report by the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, could put former Gitmo commander Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller in the hot seat. Two months ago a more senior general, Air Force Lt. Gen. Randall Schmidt, was placed in charge of the SouthCom probe, in part, so Miller could be questioned. The FBI e-mails indicate that FBI agents quarreled repeatedly with military commanders, including Miller and his predecessor, retired Gen. Michael Dunleavy, over the military's more aggressive techniques. "Both agreed the bureau has their way of doing business and DOD has their marching orders from the SecDef," one e-mail stated, referring to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Sources familiar with the SouthCom probe say investigators didn't find that Miller authorized abusive treatment. But given the complaints that were being raised, sources say, the report will provoke questions about whether Miller should have known what was happening—and acted to try to prevent it. An Army spokesman declined to comment.

-Michael Isikoff and John Barry
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-05 10:49 PM
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2. Pretty minor article with all due respects
The article was blown out of proportion and the White House/McClellan wanted to blame all bad happenings on Newsweek. Newsweek swiftly buckled under.
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