Newsweek published this story in which they accuse US forces as desecrating the Quran to upset prisoners in Guantanamo. They must not have put much effort into vetting this rumor, because now they are backing off, apologizing for any mistakes they made in printing the story. This is only after several anti-American riots and some deaths occured in Afghanistan and other Muslim areas. I'd have to say it's almost treasonous to print unproven stuff like this that is so incendiary while in the middle of the war. Whose side is Newsweek on? I would have no problem with them printing this story if they had some sort of verification, but with them backing off the story, they are implicitly admitting that they did not. If not treasonous, it's certainly highly irresponsible, and now people are dead as a direct effect, and many of our allies in the Muslim world have probably lost trust in us.

For shame, Newsweek, whose side are you on? If there was a similar story about Muslim's desecrating Bibles, you can be darn sure they verify it, because they would not want to insult Muslims. Our own press seems to have no problem embarrassing us, however.