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Newsweek Got Gitmo Right

From:
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2883/Newsweek_Got_Gitmo_Right

By Calgacus
Republished from Antiwar
Newsweek caves in to the White House gag rule, but the evidence can't be erased.

Contrary to White House spin, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek on May 9, 2005, are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States. Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Koran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it. Prior to the Newsweek article, the New York Times reported a Guantanamo insider asserting that the commander of the facility was compelled by prisoner protests to address the problem and issue an apology.