Posted on 06/03/2005 10:40:01 PM PDT by CHARLITE
An interrogator accidentally stepped on a prisoner's Koran, copies of Islam's holy text got wet when guards tossed water balloons into a cellblock and one was "splashed" by urine, according to the final results of a Pentagon probe. But the investigation sparked by accusations in the press about desecration of the Koran here found "no credible evidence" that prison guards or interrogators "ever flushed a Koran down a toilet," the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the prison for terrorism suspects, said yesterday.
The findings show that al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at the detention center themselves mishandled Korans on 15 occasions, three times more than the military prison's guards and interrogators. "These included using a Koran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Koran, attempting to flush a Koran down the toilet, and urinating on the Koran." The probe found five confirmed incidents of military guards and interrogators "mishandling" the Koran, a fact cited by military officials before but never described in detail. The incidents were:......
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Who cares? The liberal media does. All night its been about this weak story. Mind you these same people defended a cross in a jar of urine and elephant dung on the Virgin Mary as free speech. Its America hatred through and through.
Riots in 3....2.....1...
Mail call.
Giving these maniacs the Koran in prison is akin to giving homosexual pedophiles a magazine subscription to "Blue Boy."
We're so freaking DUMB!!!
The need from the Pentagon, or some dimwith therein, to let everyone in the world know that a soldier one day kicked a Koran is beyond me.
JUST SHUT UP!!!
ya know what I mean?
The Pentagon has distributed some 1,600 taxpayer-funded copies of the Muslim Holy Book to suspected terrorists detained at...
Well, here’s the answer!
This is nuts it's the big thing on the news--big freakin deal--look at what they do and kill in the name of the kora--ahh never mind it's sick--koran belongs in the toilet,and it's a book,only a book
Oh man, do I ever. It's insane. To think that the military is even wasting time giving credence to this is enough to make your head spin.
This is even lower on the news totem pole than that Abu Graihb thing and that was not worth reporting. Now they also have that Gitmo junk ... this is a WAR ... when is the military going to stop worrying about and answering to crap like this and start worrying about the things that are important, like the safety of our country.
this nonsense is the lead story on abc radio hourly network news--expect sunday times and wash post to get on this...crazy..whats the meaning of WAR? and wake up but this is a war about the KORAN and ISLAM
And check out this dude- the new record holder of the smallest Koran. This one can be flushed down the sink.
http://pakistantimes.net/2004/11/06/specialreport.htm
What I want to know is how many of these terrorists our guys abused; kicked, beat, shot, beheaded, etc.
People just can't be serious if they worry about one of their Satanicly inspired Korans getting wet. This is just nuts.
I have a simple solution to all of this: confiscate all Korans.
Ah, the 'they're in prison so they must be guilty' argument. I've no doubt that there are some reasonably unsavourary people at Guantanamo although, as I said previously, it is fairly obvious that no-one of any real terrorist standing has ever been anywhere near the place.
But the fact is we don't know what most of the people there were doing to get there. There's never been a situation where evidence can be presented. Some of them would have been engaged in fighting in Afghanistan (although that's pretty much all there's been to do in Afghanistan for the past few decades so that's hardly a suprise), some of them I'm sure where in the wrong place at the wrong time or offended the wrong people (most don't seem to have been directly captured by American forces at all). Some were nowhere near Afghanistan when detained.
IIf you click on my thumbnail you will see why I made it that size to avoid the bandwidth that yours has used.
I assume you mean all "The Korans" from prisoners of war. I'd agree on that. But my book burning statement earlier was made in anger. I don't believe in that.
Let me take this a step further. I'm fifty two and when I was twenty one I made a freind who was a Muslim from Turkey. He wasn't a kill crazy asshole like we see today. He was a doctor who married a Christian woman. Not all are bad but most of them are.
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