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From: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
Date: 20050723
Author:Kent Ward
When Newsweek magazine, citing an anonymous source, reported on May 9 that American guards at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had attempted to rattle Muslim prisoners there by desecrating the Quran, reaction was immediate.
Riots that broke out in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world were blamed on the report that the Muslim holy book had been defiled, and the magazine's unimpeachable government source began having second thoughts about his role in the flap.
Sorry about that, he told the author of the piece. I know you believe you understood what you thought I said. ...
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