Newsweek

This Newsweek stuff really gets me. Aside from the obvious comparison with the US administration, which has failed to take any responsibility at all for invading a country by using false claims, it is obvious based upon the sequence of events that nobody in the government even cared about the item until it becamse an embarassing problem for it. Here is some original reporting:

japantoday > asia
Pakistan complains to U.S. over Koran desecration, cartoon

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 00:39 JSTISLAMABAD — Pakistan has conveyed its deep concern to the United States over the reported desecration of the Koran at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and a cartoon carried by a U.S. daily newspaper that slighted Pakistan, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
The ministry said in a press release that the Pakistani concerns have been conveyed to U.S. authorities through the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and by the Pakistani Embassy in Washington. (Kyodo News)

You see that it took at least 4 days until any US government official had any complaint. When Newsweek broke the story (which actually was only a small part of a bigger story) on Monday of last week, the US government had no complaint with it.

I believe they are just seeing this as an opportunity to smash down another part of the US media that in doing their journalistic job exposes things that our government would rather be kept quiet, as they did with Dan Rather and CBS news.