US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice blasted an unsubstantiated report of Koran desecrations by US troops as “appalling” and said it had created a “very major problem” for Washington in the Muslim world. . . .
“I think it’s perfectly plausible and even likely that there were those who used this event to stoke anti-American sentiment for their own purposes,” she said.
Without directly criticizing Newsweek, she said, “I hope that everybody will step back and take a look at how they handled this. Everybody. It’s just unfortunate because it became a very major problem.”
Indeed.
UPDATE: John Tierney’s column on war coverage seems to me to be more timely this week than it was last week when it came out.