Bush admn accused of hypocrisy over Quran abuse
The US government, which has called Newsweek magazine to account over a discredited article alleging US soldiers desecrated the Quran at Guantanamo Bay military base that set off deadly violence, should try and clean up its own act, some politicians and US commentators say.
Critics remind the US administration of how it used imprecise information itself to justify the war in Iraq, pointing out what they see as unconvincing inquiries into other alleged abuses at Guantanamo and Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison where serious abuses of prisoners occurred last year.
The State Department called the Newsweek article "appalling" and liberally mentioned the "very major problem" caused to Washington in the Muslim world.
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