Just over the wire, but no online link yet:

WASHINGTON, May 16 (AFP) - Newsweek magazine on Monday issued a retraction of an article alleging abuse of the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility which sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries.

UPDATE at 5/16/05 2:35:57 pm:

Newsweek Retracts Koran-Desecration Story.

NEW YORK — Newsweek on Monday retracted a story alleging interrogators at Guantanamo flushed the Koran down a toilet in front of detainees.

“Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay,” editor Mark Whitaker said in statement released Monday evening.