Anne Applebaum: “Now, it is possible that no interrogator at Guantanamo Bay ever flushed pages of the Koran down the toilet, as the now-retracted Newsweek story reported — although several former Guantanamo detainees have alleged just that. It is also possible that Newsweek reporters relied too much on an uncertain source, or that the magazine confused the story with (confirmed) reports that prisoners themselves used Korans to block toilets as a form of protest.”

Via Instapundit, who has this to say: “I had missed those confirmed reports, but heads should roll at the Pentagon for this. Not because it happened, but because we didn’t make it a big story across the Arab media. That’s unforgivable.”