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2005-05-16 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by ed 2005-05-16 09:53|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "It's not acceptable now that the magazine says it's made a mistake," Reuters quoted 42-year-old writer and journalist Hafizullah Torab as saying.

Of course not. That would mean that all that silly-assed rioting was a mistake.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-16 09:57|| 2005-05-16 09:57|| Front Page Top

#2 "It's not acceptable now that the magazine says it's made a mistake" Not even if it DID make a mistake. We're on a jihad and we're not backing down. We've lost 15 people on a rumor that a holy dead tree product was flushed down a toilet half way around the world and, by Alan, we want lots more bloodshed.

Posted by Tom 2005-05-16 10:02|| 2005-05-16 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Do we really believe that these idiots needed an obscure reference in a US news mag to incite a religious riot and kill people? It was nothing more than a convienent excuse for some iman to whip up his flock and divert their attention from Islam's delusional view of society and the world. Newsweak is dishonorable and complicit in the anti-Americanism but whats news here. The MSM all have one thing in common - benefit of the doubt will always be on the side that the American government isn't on.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2005-05-16 10:08|| 2005-05-16 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 "All innocent people released."

Smell the Jihad speak aided and abetted by Newweak. I really thing we should hand these 3 over to the Waki Paki and tell them these are the defilers of the holey korhan. It would serve them all right.

Afganistan is going to slide back into a shithole and more U.S. servicemen are going to die from the acts of these trators at Newsweek. SO hand them over to the Waki Pakis.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-16 10:10|| 2005-05-16 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 the irony is this: give 'em a Bible or a Torah, and see how they'd treat it.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2005-05-16 11:13|| 2005-05-16 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 No need to find out what they'd do with a Bible: OldSpook, in another comment, pointed out how the occupiers of the Church of the NAtivity in Bethlehelm treated the scriptures there. And we know what they've done to Torahs.

Newsweek backtracked when the Pentagon denied the story. The vast majority of questionable military incidents are uncovered by internal pentagon investigations, and their moral backing comes from the fact that Western Man, and Christianity, are naturally self-critical and put a high value on veracity and truth. Unable to uncover crimes on their own, the MSM parasitically exploits these virtues to dig up their stories. These are then presented to a populace sharing the same virtues of brutal self-criticism and honesty. The strength of the story derives, in part and when confronted, not on MSM dilligence, but on the integrity of our Military. The moment KNOWLEDGEABLE military officials denied the story, Newsweek knew it was in trouble. In typical fashion, it started backtracking while throwing mud to cover its obvious retreat.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-16 11:50|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-16 11:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Newsweek is doing what Newsweek does - sell anti-Americanism to millions of subscribers. The real culprit isn't Newsweek but the Muslim holy warriors who think that it is their divine duty to kill over the alleged desecration of the Koran during a military interrogation. Muslim governments actually spoke out in favor of having the alleged culprits handed over for (capital) punishment. And these guys claim to be moderate.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-05-16 12:43|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-05-16 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 "On Sunday, a group of clerics led by Aman vowed to call for a jihad, or holy war, against the United States in three days unless it handed over the interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran."

Oh no! Not another Jihad! That makes 4351 Jihads since last year. Hard to keep up.

Posted by Angitle Fleth2925 2005-05-16 13:28|| 2005-05-16 13:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Muslims doubt Quran climbdown

"We want to believe"

I caught a story the other day wherein people were suspecting the presence of professional agitators within their protest ranks. Anyone else catch that? I believe it was from out of Afghanistan.

Posted by eLarson 2005-05-16 17:04|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-05-16 17:04|| Front Page Top

#10 "On Sunday, a group of clerics led by Aman vowed to call for a jihad, or holy war, against the United States in three days unless it handed over the interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran."

Oh no! Not another Jihad! That makes 4351 Jihads since last year. Hard to keep up.

I want each and every one of you to look deep into your inner maspaja and ask yourself, have I jihadied 30 percentum? Do I have all my limbs? Do I have notches upon my bootheel signifying my faith? If you can't meet your inner Jihad allan requires you to take your turban off and pull out those and dust off thoseKrugerrands right damn now. The muzzam will now drone while you leave screeching.

Posted by Abu Ike 2005-05-16 19:21|| 2005-05-16 19:21|| Front Page Top

#11 I have a response: "who cares what the fuck you ignorant bastards thinks? Get back to democratizing!"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-16 19:37|| 2005-05-16 19:37|| Front Page Top

#12 In that part of the world they are so accustomed to being lied to, that is the default position. And of course, in this case they (and we) were indeed lied to -- by Newsweek. So they can't really be blamed for not believing the "correction," especially given how truly weak the correction is.

The real concern, though, is the damage done to the image of America and Americans in that part of the world, where our actions were finally offsetting decades of negative propaganda. I think a case can be made for manslaughter charges against the reporters and the editor who let the article go to print. Even if the prosecution doesn't win, the press will discover that there are consequences for their actions. Ideally, the Karzai government would bring the charges, as it was Afghan citizens who were killed in the riots -- very much a piece with crying "fire" in a theater -- and the entire process would be salutorily painful for Newsweek and the entire world press corps. Freedom of the Press should not mean licence to trigger destruction by deliberately printing falsehoods, or even by conducting so considerably less than due diligence before going to print.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-16 21:53|| 2005-05-16 21:53|| Front Page Top

#13 On Sunday, a group of clerics led by Aman vowed to call for a jihad, or holy war, against the United States in three days unless it handed over the interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran. He said the call for a holy war still stood."

You know, this might be a good idea. Let's get it over with. It's bound to happen sooner or later, so let's make it sooner. Jihad away, fellas. Let's get it out in the open and settle it now. Better me fighting those crazy bastards then my kids having to do it a decade or two down the road when there's twice as many of them as there are today. I had my fill of their juvenile threats, taunts and boasts a long time ago, and I'd appreciate it if this thing went down while I can still sign up.

Posted by docob 2005-05-16 22:09|| 2005-05-16 22:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm there.

Will the crowd go wild if I suggest that cleaning out America should come first? Will Moose have a heart attack if I suggest a stronger version of the Patriot Act which actually allows us to begin that process, starting with every Muzzy "charity", "institute", "center", "school", etc?

Sadly, it won't happen. The fools are still playing PC with this - even given the fact that we've been repeatedly attacked wherever they could get to us. If knocking down the WTC Towers isn't enough to light a fire under most people, then most people are just too stupid to live.

We've been "at war" with Islam since '73. Still, here we sit, pretending that it's not true and a little more understanding will make things better. Uh, huh, right. The memo seems to have been swept under the carpet.

Nothing will happen until we are hit big, again. Then the shit ~~will~~ might hit the fan. I guess it depends upon who dies. If the WTC victims can be called "Little Eichmanns", and the moonbat author is feted for such insanity, then it will take something really special, with the dead being somebody universally sympathetic.

A Day School for invalid children, no make that orphaned invalid children, on an Indian reservation, perhaps. Is that un-PC enough?

We'll see. Meanwhile, there are plenty of Neros fiddling away.

Posted by .com 2005-05-16 22:33|| 2005-05-16 22:33|| Front Page Top

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