Under intense government pressure, Newsweek has retracted a story that claimed U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran by flushing the holy book down the toilet. The Pentagon first complained about the article on Friday following deadly anti-American protests throughout the Muslim world. On Monday White House spokesperson Scott McClellan said “The report has had serious consequences. People have lost their lives. The image of the United States abroad has been damaged.” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said “People need to be very careful about what they say and just as people need to be careful about what they do.” And the conservative media watchdog group Accuracy in Media said “blood is on the hands of Newsweek magazine.”