Newsweek Report Continues to Elicit Rage
From Times Wire Reports
Muslim protesters burned, spat on and urinated on a U.S. flag in eastern India, accusing Americans of desecrating the Koran as anger persisted despite the retraction of a Newsweek magazine report that the holy book had been flushed down a toilet in the U.S.-run jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
About 200 demonstrators in Calcutta chanted slogans against President Bush and the United States. Thousands also took to the streets in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu and in the Palestinian territories.
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