Original sentence: In 2004 and 2005 there were news reports that some US personnel at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp had desecrated the Qur'an.The Pentagon has since confirmed five incidents of US personnel mishandling or mistreating the book.There were over a dozen pre-Newsweek reports of the allegations.When one of those reports (by Newsweek magazine) was widely reported in the Islamic world there were widespread protests which turned violent in some regions
Edited sentence: After anti-US demonstrations harping on this report led to over a dozen rioting deaths, some media critics blamed Newsweek.Newsweek's alleged sourcing problems notwithstanding, there were in fact over a dozen pre-Newsweek reports of the allegations.Several reports of incidents of Qur'an desecration perpetrated by US personnel at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp on the island of Cuba have been made, chiefly coming from prisoners accusing United States Armed Forces personnel of this offense.The Pentagon has since confirmed five incidents of US personnel mishandling or mistreating the holy book, and critics of US foreign policy and US prisoner treatment standards continued to assert their belief in retracted allegations, arguing that later Pentagon admissions of some mishandling of the book amounted to "abuse" or even "desecration".These allegations come on the heels of a Newsweek article (later retracted) which published a claimed sighting by an anonymous U.official of an unreleased report which details U.personnel desecrating the Qur'an (Koran) in various ways