Posted on 06/06/2005 5:56:44 AM PDT by Brilliant
So the Pentagon has now released the unhorrifying details of its inquiry into the mishandling of the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. It found only five cases, including one in which a detainee complained that his Koran had been kicked, and another in which urine from a guard relieving himself accidentally blew into an air vent and onto a Koran below.
That's it. With hundreds of different guards watching as many as 600 prisoners and some 28,000 interrogations over three years, that's what the hullabaloo prompted by Newsweek's false report about Koran abuse comes down to. In the case of the wayward urine, the report says the detainee was issued a new Koran and a fresh uniform, while the guard was reprimanded and kept away from prisoners for the rest of his Guantanamo duty. It should be noted that the prisoners only have Korans in the first place because the U.S. military has provided them -- some 1,600 in all.
These facts won't end the political jihad against Guantanamo, because the opposition to detaining prisoners there has little to do with the Koran, or with concern about the U.S. "image" in the Muslim world. The campaign is all about repudiating the Bush administration's approach to the war on terror...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Here's the solution. We issue new Korans in nice clean pigskin-bound covers. That way, any splashes can be easily wiped off! :)
The MSM and the Left do not need facts ... they just get in the way.
America should be producing carefully rewritten Korans so that eventually no one will have a clue which version is correct.
Thats what we get for supplying POWs with their religious texts.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The MSM is so fixed on these minor and largely unsubstantiated Koran abuses why don't they also report on the routine destruction of Christian symbols and even the killing of Christians in Muslim countries? Remember the bombings of Christian churches in Iraq? Don't these constitute hate crimes?
When will al Qaeda order a "Full Investigation" into its handling of Western prisoners?
bump to that.
Third Rule: No toilets
Fourth rule: no terrorist prisoners - which are not pow's
You mean nothing like this? Even though these people were not plotting terrorism against the people or the government?
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