How a Fire Broke Out. Evan Thomas.
by Thomas, Evan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 52Global Issues. Publisher: Newsweek, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) | Koran | Muslims -- Attitudes | Newsweek (Periodical) | Prisoners -- Treatment | Prisoners of war | RiotsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "By the end of the week, the rioting had spread from Afghanistan throughout much of the Muslim world, from Gaza to Indonesia. Mobs shouting 'Protect our Holy Book!' burned down government buildings and ransacked the offices of relief organizations in several Afghan provinces. The violence cost at least 15 lives, injured scores of people and sent a shudder through Washington, where officials worried about the stability of moderate regimes in the region. The spark was apparently lit at a press conference held on Friday, May 6 [2005], by Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricket legend and strident critic of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Brandishing a copy of that week's NEWSWEEK (dated May 9), Khan read a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo prison had placed the Qur'an on toilet seats and even flushed one." (NEWSWEEK) This article presents "the story of a sensitive NEWSWEEK report about alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay and a surge of deadly unrest in the Islamic world."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: How a Fire Broke Out, May 23, 2005; pp. 32-34.
"By the end of the week, the rioting had spread from Afghanistan throughout much of the Muslim world, from Gaza to Indonesia. Mobs shouting 'Protect our Holy Book!' burned down government buildings and ransacked the offices of relief organizations in several Afghan provinces. The violence cost at least 15 lives, injured scores of people and sent a shudder through Washington, where officials worried about the stability of moderate regimes in the region. The spark was apparently lit at a press conference held on Friday, May 6 [2005], by Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricket legend and strident critic of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Brandishing a copy of that week's NEWSWEEK (dated May 9), Khan read a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo prison had placed the Qur'an on toilet seats and even flushed one." (NEWSWEEK) This article presents "the story of a sensitive NEWSWEEK report about alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay and a surge of deadly unrest in the Islamic world."
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