Word: toileting
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...House A entryway, Rosa E. Beltran ’08, armed with a yellow sponge, is surveying her opponent. She’s brisk, she’s efficient, and she’s cheerier than she has to be considering she’s about to tackle a toilet in a senior suite...
...Newsweek magazine published an article with claims that U.S. interrogators at Guantánamo Bay had flushed a Koran down the toilet to unnerve Muslim detainees. Riots and violence ensued; the deaths of 17 people were attributed to the publication of such an incendiary claim as the destruction of the holy book. A week later, Newsweek issued a retraction of the article stating that “Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantánamo Bay.” Such negligence on Newsweek?...
Before the Newsweek article went to print, the writers ran it past a Pentagon official who made no mention of the toilet incident because, according to the magazine, it “seemed shocking but not incredible.” Given Guántanamo’s notoriety, as well as the Bush administration’s infamous approval of highly questionable interrogation tactics—which have led to some of the most disgraceful incidents of torture during the war—it seems reasonable that the official did not question the story. The claims about Koran desecration...
Here's how the story unfolded. The inflammatory reference to the alleged toilet incident amounted to only a few words in an 11-sentence item in Newsweek's front-of-the-book "Periscope" section, in the issue that hit newsstands May 2. For more than two years, other news outlets had reported Guantnamo detainees' claims that U.S. guards had thrown the Koran to the floor and even tossed it into a latrine. But the Newsweek item went further by asserting that a Pentagon report would substantiate the alleged toilet incident as well as another in which a prisoner...
Whatever the spark, after the disturbances broke out, the Pentagon reviewed details of its Guantnamo probe and concluded that investigators were not even examining the toilet-flushing allegation. Defense Department spokesman Lawrence Di Rita called Newsweek on May 13 to say the story was wrong. Four days later, he told reporters there were no credible allegations of Koran abuse to look into...