Posted on 06/04/2005 10:33:08 AM PDT by freeperskickbutt
ASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Friday confirmed for the first time that a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's Muslim holy book in violation of the military's rules for handling the Quran.
In other confirmed incidents, prison guards threw water balloons in a cell block, causing an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard's urine splashed on a detainee and his Quran; an interrogator stepped on a Quran during an interrogation; and a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.
The findings are among the results of an investigation last month by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba, that was triggered by a Newsweek magazine report — later retracted — that a U.S. soldier had flushed one Guantanamo Bay detainee's Quran down a toilet.
The story stirred worldwide controversy and the Bush administration blamed it for deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan.
Last week, Hood disclosed that he had confirmed five cases of mishandling of the Quran, but he refused to provide details. Allegations of Quran desecration at Guantanamo Bay have led to anti-American passions in many Muslim nations, although Pentagon officials have insisted that the problems were relatively minor and that U.S. commanders have gone to great lengths to enable detainees to practice their religion in captivity.
Hood said last week that he found no credible evidence that a Quran was ever flushed down a toilet. He said a prisoner who was reported to have complained to an FBI agent in 2002 that a military guard threw a Quran in the toilet has since told Hood's investigators that he never witnessed any form of Quran desecration.
Wrong.
Cluttering the forum qwith repeat threads that offer no new information is a bad thing.
Especially if done to be all snot nosed giggly trollish.
;-)
So lets discipline the offending guards, up recruitment pay and get on with it. Sorry these prisoners are so ealily offended, but they are joining a left which itself is easily offended. (cigarette smoke, helmetless cycle riders, kids in High school who do not wear their GLSEN ribbons, ...)
I believe we need a few lessons in giving and taking offense properly.
LOL
not anymore than you
adios troll
Then why do you read it? Why do you reply unless it struck a chord with you?
Wow, showing your true form.
FreePers confirm that the MSM still sucks.
Because I know you're a troll.
Because I like beating trolls down.
Good enough, but why does the government insist that the even never happened, when it DID in fact happen?
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No, they did NOT "confirm the quran incident". No Qu'Ran was flushed down a toilet.
News flash: Jaysun Blair still lied, Dan Rather still lied AND lives in his own fantasy world, Kerry still lost, Al Gore still lost.
And there is no sex in the champagne room.
Why in the heck would any of this make a Freeper happy?? Try taking your happiness to DU.......it will play well there and you will feel at home!
What, you mean I'm supposed to 'watch myself' in this forum? I can't say what I want? Is this place a gathering point for communists?
I have officially stolen that pic! (LOL)
No, wrong.
The story was that a Quran got FLUSHED down a toilet, NOT kicked.
Try getting your facts straight.
According to who? Bush? That guy's a freakin' liar.
Really?
Show proof.
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