OPERATION: BACKFIRE-make the Newsweek story backfire on the WhiteHouse

OPERATION: BACKFIRE

Simple theory:

Why is Newsweek held to a higher standard than the White House?

And we can tie it into the Downing Street Memo.

You know what to say (in a nutshell, Bush lied, people died).



STEP ONE:

Start cranking out those letters and LTTEs.

Major TV News Addresses:

http://rapidresponsenetwork.org/blog/2004/08/resource-m...

Addresses for major U.S. daily publications/wire services/weekly publications:

http://digbig.com/4cqge

Major publication addresses by state: 

http://digbig.com/4bwxw



STEP TWO:

Buy a one-year subscription to Newsweek.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek /

then click on Subscribe Now

27 issues for $16.97 - our democracy is worth it

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writing letters now....

tsk tsk tsk, isn't that shameful, says dickhead Rumsfeld.

and retracting the story?

had nothing to do with the uprising! They need to keep their BS straight!

Peace.

In November 2000 the editor of Newsweek Zuckerman got out of his limo in front of a hotel in Manhattan, made a cell phone call in view of e hundreds of terribly ill patients, in wheel chairs or hooked up to IVS were protesting an award a Drug Company lackey researcher was getting and made it all disappear from every one of the 20 news outlets that were there covering it.

This recent event was all set up far in advance, the story and the take down. DO NOT subscribe to Newsweek.

hadn't been rolling over for power for DECADES. They would have allies, a loyal support base.

http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=5959

Newsweek Got Gitmo Right
by Calgacus*
*Calgacus has been employed as a researcher in the national security field for 20 years

(snip)

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.

One such incident (during which the Koran was allegedly thrown in a pile and stepped on) prompted a hunger strike among Guantanamo detainees in March 2002. Regarding this, the New York Times in a May 1, 2005, article interviewed a former detainee, Nasser Nijer Naser al-Mutairi, who said the protest ended with a senior officer delivering an apology to the entire camp. And the Times reports: "A former interrogator at Guantanamo, in an interview with the Times, confirmed the accounts of the hunger strikes, including the public expression of regret over the treatment of the Korans." (Neil A. Lewis and Eric Schmitt, "Inquiry Finds Abuses at Guantanamo Bay," New York Times, May 1, 2005.)

The hunger strike and apology story is also confirmed by another former detainee, Shafiq Rasul, interviewed by the UK Guardian in 2003 (James Meek, "The People the Law Forgot," Dec. 3, 2003). It was also confirmed by former prisoner Jamal al-Harith in an interview with the Daily Mirror (Rosa Prince and Gary Jones, "My Hell in Camp X-Ray," Daily Mirror, March 12, 2004).

The toilet incident was reported in the Washington Post in a 2003 interview with a former detainee from Afghanistan:

Desecration of the Koran was also mentioned by former Guantanamo detainee Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost and reported by the BBC in early May 2005. (Haroon Rashid, "Ex-Inmates Share Guantanamo Ordeal," May 2, 2005.)


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Prove that!

And that's not a typo. I did a Lexis-Nexis search, posted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3669550