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Sridhar Krishnaswami
WASHINGTON: In the face of escalating violence and unrest in parts of South Asia and West Asia over allegations of desecration of the Holy Koran, the Bush administration is further stressing that the United States will not tolerate any such acts and that an investigation to what happened at the Guanatanmo Bay base is already under way by the Pentagon. That said, the White House is skirting the subject of why President George W Bush has not addressed the subject by not directly addressing the Islamic community. In the last few days senior administration officials at the State Department and the White House have come out speaking on the subject but the President has not.
Respect for values
"Do you believe that the President should come out and address directly the Muslim world and promise a serious investigation into the incident, so you contain it before it becomes another Abu Ghraib?", the White House Spokesman Scott McClellan was asked on Friday. The spokesman did not answer the query directly but talked of the Defence department investigation, the Secretary of State reaching out to the Muslim world and America's respect for values. Earlier at the start of the briefing Mr. McClellan said that the President has been in contact with Dr. Rice. The White House has also argued that people should not resort to violence because if the people who are inciting it are "misrepresenting the values" of the United States.
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