I’m guessing Newsweek is just hoping that something turns up. The fact is that they went with an explosive story based on a single-source with no real confirmation (although they attempted to get confirmation). After Abu Ghraib, any allegation involving a military prison has to make you nervous. But the Koran-flushing thing seems inherently implausible. There was an uproar at Gitmo in the late-2002 timeframe over our guys just dropping a Koran on the floor, so I doubt anyone would have been flushing one down a toilet. Because the cells of the detainees sometimes have to be searched and they have Korans in them, the military has had to come up with procedures over how to handle them. My understanding is that they wear gloves, have the detainees themselves turn the pages, and only touch them with their right hands. Our guys really deserved much more of a benefit of the doubt than Newsweek was willing to give them–but is anyone surprised?