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.
Heck, the fixative spray fro my sketches can make one wacked out in no time.
(Conned some idiot into using the stuff in an enclosed room..)
fro???
FOR.
Fore!
*whack!*
can you read?
Is he still around ? ;-)
Yup.
Muzz be nice to have your very own Darwin candidate.
Yeah.
Best part: He seems immune to injury, impervious to pain.
Though he does try to test out gravity once in awhile, even if it is unintentional.
I was sarcastically refering to your elitist post on another thread about those who post on zot threads being below the 3rd grade reading level.
The fact you didn't get it speaks wonders to your "intellect."
Yes, because the thread had to be posted before those. Come on. What is with you?
Crusading against reactionary posters? Someone who admits in his profile to being banned 6 times himself? LOL.
IMHO: Much to do about very little.
Simply reflect upon what they have done to so many who deserve much better.
Yeah.
That was a hoot and a half.
Overwhelmingly stupid.
Now I'm being lectured on how long he's been around - and I've been around here longer. LOL.
The first to post a comment was the same person who posted the thread (revealing without a doubt it was a troll). Your analysis needs work.
Pentagon Confirms Ban Incident at Zotmo
Posted by Republican Wildcat to bigsigh
On News/Activism 06/04/2005 12:42:56 PM PDT · 175 of 298
What are you doing hanging out with those of us below the 3rd grade reading level? Don't you have something else to do besides being associated with us riff-raff?
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Yes I was, Knitting...and some lower-GI-upsetting ugly junk's headed this way right now.
And I've seen some pretty yucky stuff over the years. ;-)
See you soon on the (other) fun thread. :-)
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