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Boeing, Bell apologize for mosque attack
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-10-01 08:50
NEW YORK - Boeing Co. apologized on Friday for a mistakenly published
advertisement for its V-22 Osprey aircraft showing troops dropping onto the roof
of a mosque in what appears to be a simulated battle scene. Reuters
reported.
The ad, coming amid rising concern among Muslims over U.S.
military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, prompted immediate complaints from the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which demanded the withdrawal of
the campaign.
But Boeing, which created the ad with partner Bell Helicopter, said
publication was a "clerical error" by the National Journal, which ran the ad on
September 24.
"We consider the ad offensive, regret its publication and apologize to those
who like us are dismayed with its contents," said Mary Foerster, vice president
at Boeing's defense unit, in a statement.
The ad "did not proceed through normal channels," Boeing said, and despite
asking for it to be withdrawn and destroyed, was published in error.
The National Journal, a Washington government and policy magazine, admitted
it made a clerical error and said it accepted full responsibility in a statement
issued on Friday.
The furor comes only two days after the Pentagon finally approved full-rate
production of the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft -- which takes off and lands like a
helicopter but can fly like a plane -- after years of checkered development.
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