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"Pentagon Finds No Evidence Koran Was Defiled"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
May 13, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - Protests were planned across Pakistan Friday as Muslim anger over the alleged desecration of the Koran by the U.S. military spread outwards from Afghanistan, where at least seven people have been killed in violent clashes with security forces.
The Pentagon said Thursday there is no evidence to support an allegation that a copy of the Islamic text had been flushed down a toilet "in an attempt to rattle suspects" held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. The brief item, citing an unnamed source, was published in Newsweek magazine.
General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a briefing that a search of interrogation logs at Guantanamo had turned up no record of interrogators abusing the Koran.
There was one record - still to be confirmed - of a guard reporting that one of the detainees had been "ripping pages out of the Korean and putting them in the toilet to stop it up, as a protest," he said."
http://www.newschannel5.tv/2005/5/12/2682/Border-Patrol-Takes-Fire-From-Mexico
"Border Patrol Takes Fire From Across Border"
Thursday, May 12, 2005 Updated:11:03:47 PM CDT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SOUTH OF ALAMO - Border Patrol officers take fire from across the Rio Grande at the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.
SOUTH OF ALAMO – Border Patrol agents come under automatic weapons fire from across the Rio Grande after finding a truck being loaded with drugs at the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge south of Alamo.
No agents were injured in the exchange. All Border Patrol agents in the area, as well as all local law enforcement agencies responded to the scene. It is unknown if agents were able to wound their attackers across the border."
"Pentagon Finds No Evidence Koran Was Defiled"
Cindy do you or does anyone have the original Newsweek article on this? I searched for it quickly yesterday and wasn't able to find it.
I was curious to see how many times 'unnamed sources' were quoted in the article.
IMO, Newsweek has blood on their hands for this one.
"There was one record - still to be confirmed - of a guard reporting that one of the detainees had been "ripping pages out of the Korean and putting them in the toilet to stop it up, as a protest," he said."
Now it seems to me, that's the perfect place for it!!