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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Oh ... my .... Gosh...they want this to be true so freakin bad, it's embarrassing.
When is the MSM going to start screaming about what the Muslims have done to the Bible and our Holy places?
Why on earth do we worry about a book that preaches mine and your destruction?
It's crazy. We are at war for our survival.
Just wait. These clowns are going to pull a Twelve Monkeys scenario on us first chance and we'll be busy handwringing about their cursed little screed of a book written by a child molestor for folks who worship a large meteor.
I could not have written anything stupider than the truth if I tried.
Jeezus schmeezus, do we even need to hear this sh**?
I'm so totally damn sick of PC and sensitivity stuff. These gitmo creatures are foreing enemies; deadly dangerous, raving lunatic Muslims.
You said it all in your earlier post: what would General Patton have done to a soldier he caught pissing on Japanese's stuff?
BFD
Who gives a flying f**k? Get me to Gitmo, and I'll drop trou and take a healthy dump on that rag (after slurping down a good Tex-Mex dinner)....then I'll happily kick the snot out of the ACLU maggot that I had invited to witness my action....and his Mama if she wants to come along for the ride.
Hey, Abdul.....your Mama was "bent" by pigs!
How do ya like them apples, Sucka?
How horrible ( sarcasm)
In the meantime, Christians shouldn't get upset when so-called artists create so-called artwork, such as Ofili's blasphemic painting of the Virgin Mary, exhibited on tax payer dollars.
"The painting, depicting a black Madonna whose breasts are made of elephant dung, and surrounded by pornographic images, has caused the mayor of New York to withhold the city's subsidy to the Brooklyn Museum of Art where it is on exhibition. "
Who gives a rats-$ss. Oh well...let the rioting begin.
Really. Let's all bow our heads in shame. NOT.
Once again - I do not care if they like us.
Our actions should speak for themselves. We have been a beacon of freedom for over two hundred years. Our wars have been fought, not for material or territorial gain, but to eliminate those who would threaten us, or to liberate the oppressed.
For those who understand that, and many in the Middle East do, despite the best efforts of anti-American media in this country and elsewhere, no other explanation is necessary.
For the rest, it does not matter that they love us. It is only necessary that they fear us.
How about we start running a prison...you know, a place where we put bad guys to PUNISH THEM? Or, maybe we should export them to a country that has no compunction with real, grown up punishment.
You have it exactly right! - And the fact is most of America agrees 100% with you (they just don't want to talk about it openly) - And this is what the MSM & Democrats don't get!) -
The American public doesn't give a sh*t about these prisoners (in reality) though they must act PC about it all when confronted in the open - But the bottom line is behind the scenes of all the MSM spin the American public doesn't give a sh*t ...AND...they understand we are at war!
And at the end of the day they are extremely glad GWB is our President (and on the whole that Republicans are much stronger in the GWOT than our the Democrats). The MSM spinning this abuse BS only continues to confirm this to the public.
Hiya, Cornpone......long time no see.....I agree...who gives a sh-t!.....but as Rush has been saying..this is the rats idea of how to bring down Bush...
Stop the War, I want to get off.
Just remember that these practioners of "the religion of peace"
(give me a frigging break!!!) defile and destroy each and every copy of our HOLY BIBLE everytime that they find it, in Egypt.....
The "politically correct" crowd in this country needs to be addressed as the TRAITOROUS BASTARDS that they are, in my honest opinion.
Hi mystery-ak...same here...good to hear from you again...check out my profile..I've settled in for the long fight:)...thanks, take care, stay in touch and give your fighting man the best from me...Corn
I'll confess. I AM interested in protecting the Quran, but for one reason only--to protect the lives of Americans and others abroad. The military's protocol on the handling of the Quran is designed to prevent outrage, however absurd (and really how much outrage in Muslim countries isn't absurd on some level?) and the human and diplomatic crises wacky Muslim outrage causes. I can understand that.
What I don't understand and what I fully resent are liberals and MSM cretins adopting Muslims' views regarding the sacredness or holiness of the Quran as their own.
Speaking of absurdities, how bizarre is it that thoroughly secular Blue Staters for whom little or nothing is sacred (think of flag-burning or Andres Serrano's Piss Christ) would get all worked up over the 'insensitivity' of 'mistreating' a freakin' book?
WOW, you sure have a lot of reading material links.....I hope you are still writing.......btw...Rush has been saying for weeks that the rats have been planning to use these Koran abuse stories to take down Dubya, but I don't understand his reasoning because I really don't think the American people give a damn....
Apparently Rush has lost touch with the fact there are people like you, your husband and the fellows I have served with and tens of millions of other Americans that will never give up or allow our world to be overcome by the forces of darkness or evil...some of us have never forgotten history and we will fight to defend the future...
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