[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by sycamore

If it didn't happen, we're still gonna get the evil eye, primarily b/c of Abu Ghraib.

From MSNBC: The firestorm of anger continued Monday over Newsweek's handling of a story that alleged U.S. interrogators desecrated the Quran as Muslim leaders and the Bush administration both blasted the magazine’s partial retraction of the piece.

Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan said that U.S. pressure was behind the magazine's shift while presidential spokesman Scott McClellan called it "puzzling" that "while Newsweek now acknowledges that they got the facts wrong, they refuse to retract the story." U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the story "appalling."