Whoaaaa... Not so fast...
the icrc (international committee of the red cross), pledged to keep the findings of its human-rights investigations secret, evidently decided, after watching the public execution of newsweek, that enough was enough...
Red Cross backs claims of Koran abuse in US prison camp
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The Pentagon was made aware three years ago that US personnel might have been desecrating or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.
[...]
Asked about the Red Cross's confidential reports, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, confirmed their existence but said they had been forwarded "on rare occasions" and called them "detainee allegations which they [the Red Cross] could not corroborate".
But that is not how Mr Schorno portrayed them.
"All information we received were corroborated allegations," he said. "We certainly corroborated mentions of the events by detainees themselves."
bushco has said from the very beginning that the media does not speak for the american people and has gone out of its way to withhold information and create huge obstacles in the path of serious news-gathering...
imho, rove has just been waiting for the chance to deliver a knock-out punch and newsweek presented an excellent opportunity... the media has certainly taken more umbrage over the attack than anything in quite some time so maybe it's a wake-up call for aggressive reporting...
with the icrc speaking publicly, maybe folks will see how nakedly power-mad our coup d'etat leaders really are... Submit To Propeller
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Red Cross backs claims of Koran abuse in US prison camp
(more)
The Pentagon was made aware three years ago that US personnel might have been desecrating or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.
[...]
Asked about the Red Cross's confidential reports, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, confirmed their existence but said they had been forwarded "on rare occasions" and called them "detainee allegations which they [the Red Cross] could not corroborate".
But that is not how Mr Schorno portrayed them.
"All information we received were corroborated allegations," he said. "We certainly corroborated mentions of the events by detainees themselves."
bushco has said from the very beginning that the media does not speak for the american people and has gone out of its way to withhold information and create huge obstacles in the path of serious news-gathering...
imho, rove has just been waiting for the chance to deliver a knock-out punch and newsweek presented an excellent opportunity... the media has certainly taken more umbrage over the attack than anything in quite some time so maybe it's a wake-up call for aggressive reporting...
with the icrc speaking publicly, maybe folks will see how nakedly power-mad our coup d'etat leaders really are... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
5/19/2005
