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 WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The Newsweek magazine said
Sunday that it made errors in the report on Koran desecration that has sparked
widespread protests across the Muslim world, and apologized for the errors.
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong,
and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the US soldiers
caught in its midst," Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's
latest issue, due to be on US newsstand on Monday.
The weekly magazine inaccurately reported in its
issue dated May 9 that US military investigators had found evidence
interrogators at the US naval base prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed
one copy of Koran down the toilet to get inmates to talk, he said.
He wrote that the information for the report had come
from a "knowledgeable US government source," and its writers had sought comment
from the Pentagon before it was published.
But the source later told the magazine that he could
not be certain about reading of the alleged Koran incident in the report cited
by the magazine, Whitaker wrote.
"Top administration officials have promised to
continue looking into the charges, and so will we," he wrote.
In an interview with CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday,
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said the report had not been confirmed.
"If it turns out to be true, obviously we will take action against those
responsible," he said.
The report has sparked strong condemnation from the
Muslim world as Muslims consider the Koran the holy book and treat each book
with deep reverence. Violent protests have been launched from Afghanistan, where
16 were killed and more than 100 injured, to Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza.
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