LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY thedemonprist)

Apologies in advance if this has nothing to do with anything...but I found this article from the BBC website tonight, and it triggered something in me.

Newsweek says it was wrong to report that a copy of the Koran was flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay.

US magazine Newsweek has said it was wrong to report that a copy of the Koran was flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

It said a US military investigation had failed to corroborate the story, published last week.

It one of several allegations of desecration of the Koran made by former inmates of the US detention facility.

At least 15 people have been killed in riots in Afghanistan following the article's publication.

The Pentagon has said there is no substance to the specific allegation.

In its latest edition, Newsweek's editor writes that its original source is not sure where he saw the assertion.

The magazine said it regretted its error, and extended sympathy to the victims of the protests.

The original claims triggered outrage throughout the Muslim world.

As well as the deaths in Afghanistan, more than 100 people have been injured in violent anti-US protests in Muslim nations from Pakistan to Indonesia.

'Sympathies to victims'

"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong," Newsweek's editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on news stands on Monday.

Whitaker said Newsweek wanted to "extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the US soldiers caught in its midst".

In its new account, the magazine said that one of its reporters spoke to "his original source, the senior government official, who said that he clearly recalled reading investigative reports about mishandling the Koran, including a toilet incident".

"But the official, still speaking anonymously, could no longer be sure that these concerns had surfaced" in a forthcoming report by the US military, the magazine added.

Whitaker told Reuters news agency that he no longer knew whether the occurrence was genuine.

"As to whether anything like this happened, we just don't know," he said.

Newsweek said that when it told Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita about what the source had said, the spokesman became angry.

"People are dead because of what this son-of-a-bitch said. How could he be credible now?" Mr DiRita was quoted as saying.

We know that the dominionists purposely spread fear and misinformation in their efforts. I wonder if this is potentially an example, seeing as how they want to incite bloodshed so that they can justify their taking over/destroying the world. I mean, this is more than a spelling error or a faulty headline in a popular magazine - serious harm was done.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but it really makes me wonder.