Newsweek Apologizes: Newsweek offered an apology for reporting that unnamed Pentagon sources revealed that interrogators at Guantánamo Bay may have flushed pages from the Koran down a toilet in order to provoke a detainee into talking. The Pentagon, naturally, was outraged by such a suggestion and rebutted that Newsweek was responsible for inciting rioting in Afghanistan that resulted in 17 deaths. Other sources stated that the detainee was the person who had actually flushed pages from the Koran down the toilet.

Cooler heads in Afghanistan reported that it was doubtful the story provoked the deaths, which were probably the result of opportunistic trouble makers.

In the meantime, you've gotta ask yourself isn't it wonderful to see the Pentagon officials outraged over a news magazine's article? As if the news magazine is the source of the abuse. Me thinks they doth protest too much.