 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. Enditem
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