SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: TIP REPORT

UNCLAS ABU DHABI 002705 SIPDIS STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA; INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE; NSC SECDEF FOR OASD/PA USCINCCENT FOR POLAD LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; ALSO FOR MOC PARIS FOR ZEYA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC SUBJECT: SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: TIP REPORT ¶1. SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST RIDICULES THE TIP REPORT BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT SAYING THAT THOSE WHO PREPARED THE REPORT "HAVE DEALT ONLY WITH THE MOST EXTREME EXAMPLES OF ABUSES OF HOUSEMAIDS AND IGNORED THE MAJORITY THAT ARE TREATED WELL AND WITH DIGNITY IN OUR HOMES". HE CALLED ON SECRETARY RUMSFELD TO RESIGN, FOLLOWING THE REVELATIONS OF KORAN ABUSE AND THE VIOLATIONS AT THE ABU GHARIB PRISON. HE CONCLUDED THAT THE EXECUTIONER CAN NEVER BECOME A JUDGE AND THOSE WHO ARE VIOLATORS OF THE LAW CAN NOT BECOME PROMOTERS OF IT AT THE SAME TIME. END SUMMARY ¶2. MUHAMMAD YOUSUF WROTE IN HIS DAILY COLUMN IN DUBAI-BASED ARABIC DAILY "AL-BAYAN" 6/10(CIRCULATION 90,000): "FOLLOWING NEWSWEEK'S RETRACTION OF ITS EARLIER REPORT REGARDING THE DESECRATION OF THE HOLY KORAN AT THE GUANTANAMO BAY, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY HERE THAT TWO WEEKS AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT, THE PENTAGON ADMITTED THAT THERE ARE SEVEN CASES IN WHICH THE KORAN WAS ABUSED. FOUR WERE CONFIRMED, BUT THREE ARE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. IT SEEMS THAT NEWSWEEK IS GIVING US A LESSON IN THE FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA. WE ARE ACCUSED OF ABUSING MAIDS, ACCORDING TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S TIP REPORT. IT SEEMS THAT THOSE WHO PREPARED THE REPORT MET ONLY WITH THE CORRUPT AND THE PERVERTED TO COME UP WITH SUCH A CONCLUSION. IF THEY HAD INVESTIGATED FURTHER, THEY WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT MAIDS RULE AND CONTROL MANY HOUSES IN THE GULF, AND ARE TREATED WITH DIGNITY BY OUR WOMEN. BY THE WAY, THE U.S., WHICH SEEMS TO BE BUSY WITH THE SITUATION REGARDING OUR MAIDS AND PREPARES REPORTS THAT CONTRADICT REALITY, IS RELUCTANT TO RESPOND TO THE AMNESTY GENERAL WHO ACCUSED THE U.S. OF CONFIRMED VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. AS WE ARE TACKLING THIS, WE MUST ASK "WHEN WILL DONALD RUMSFELD SUBMIT HIS RESIGNATION AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE?" HE PUSHED THE PENTAGON INTO SCANDALS AND WEEKLY VIOLATIONS. HIS INSTRUCTIONS TO THE JAILERS HAVE BECOME SUBJECT OF RIDICULE, AND THE EVENTS OF ABU GHARIB IN IRAQ REPRESENTS ONLY A TINY PORTION OF WHAT STARTED TO BE REVEALED OF VIOLATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN AND OTHER PLACES.. THE EXECUTIONER CAN NOT BECOME A JUDGE AND THOSE WHO VIOLATE THE LAW CAN NEVER BECOME PROTECTORS OF THE LAW." SISON