Posted on 06/03/2005 4:38:21 PM PDT by Kokojmudd
By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.
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Ahhhh.....Pork BBQ Koran Wraps for everybody!! :D
Good Lord.
A PC war against folks determined to exterminate us. We have not yet learned.
I wonder if McArthur would have been angry if a Marine pissed on the Rising Sun in view of some Jap suicidal maniac-soldier.
I think the PC sensitivity regs have ruined a lot of good military brass or at least their judgement.
Agree, bfd!
I really, really hate to break this to you, but in this case the MSM is correct...
There ARE a set of rules about how the Koran is supposed to be handled---each soldier is given the set when he is shipped over to those countries and Gitmo---I think there are like 18 different rules on the list...although I may have the # wrong...
NOW, don't that beat all???
I like the Blackjack Pershing way of dealing with moslem terrorist. Bury them in pig carcasses.
Excellent post, wardaddy.
Does anyone remember how frickin' COMIC BOOKS and CARTOONS portrayed Nazis and Japs back in the 40's? Can you imagine the FUROR if today's comics portrayed Muslims in similar fashion?
I'm waiting for Spencers to start carrying the "Koran" toilet paper!
If those guards had kicked around a bible nothing more would be said of it - Nor would anything be said if they wiped their butts with the American Flag (except their fellow soldiers would no doubt have something to say) but the news would deem them First Amendment heroes.
So tell me again why it's so bad to treat a BOOK poorly?
Damn, I'm hungry for pork now.
Agreed...smearing it with bacon grease would be a nice touch as well.
Isn't it a sign of the end times when articles like this appear to be parodies but are in fact, authentic? :-)
OK. OK.
I suggest we use the technology that Kalifornia wants to use to put serial numbers on bullets, to write the koran on all of our projectile weapon's projectiles.
Then we "send" these murdering animals all the copies of that vile hate filled trash they can handle.
Would THAT be OK?
Members of Bangladesh Soldiers of Islam, the children wing of Youth Jamiyat, hold the Quran during an anti-U.S. protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, June 3, 2005. The group was demonstrating against the alleged desecration of the Quran by U.S. soldiers in Guantanamo Bay. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
But Saudi Arabia shreds Bibles (real Holy books), and all we here is...
LOLOL....It's the Other White Meat!
Apropos,for the swine they are.
A bit of wisdom I borrowed from truth29. There seems to be quite a few applications where it fits perfectly.
It's getting to the point that our children can't read a Bible in school.
Our values as a nation are being trampled on.
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