MEANWHILE....
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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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.
Did any of you see which way Jack Bauer went? I know, he's fiction, but at least he gets it!
AP has lost all claim as far as being a credible news service goes.
It's now just a partisan Islamic Jihad mouthpiece.
I'd go buy a koran and video tape myself peeing on it, but would any news service report this "news"?
AP never reports real crime, like the Islamic fundamentalist movement and their daily slaughtering of "infidels", all they seem to be doing is trying to provoke nut case muslims to murder more people. I guess Al-Quida owns AP now.
I can give a rats ass about AP reporters....
Yeah.... wouldn't you like to see the president look at the camera and say "you know, I'd rather our military guys didn't mess with the koran... but this is nothing compared to what I'm going to do to Osama and and his henchmen when we get them"
Gee, I wonder if the media goons would be similarly outraged if we held a bunch of Neo-Nazi terrorists and flushed/drop-kicked a few of their editions of Mein Kampf? (Of course they wouldn't). But because Muslims are among the protected politically-correct class they'll be defended blindly.
LMAO!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh WAAAAAAAAA,WAAAAAAA
Fine. We will stop "kicking the book" when you stop chopping the heads off of infidels. Deal?
ROFLMAO! Now ALL the DemonRATs will want to visit Gitmo for the "Golden Showers"!
I REALLY want more details on THAT one...just where was the guard that his whiz hit a "Detainee" (Read Islamazi SCUMBAG)?
Ya know what, I don't care if they stuck the book in a pile of pig poopy. I'm getting tired of this constant cry-baby-they-touched-my-book stuff. They're POWs for crying out loud, not day care center customers!
Apologies to those who take their religion seriously.
What a bunch of S--t. They behead christians and no outrage. Amen.
MEANWHILE....
Boo hoo is right. Most of these are indirect accidents. Wow what a scandel.
The story stirred worldwide controversy and the Bush administration blamed it for deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan.
No, IT CAUSED deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan!
Nice try at linkage though.
But, it's A-OK to soak a crucifix in a glass of urine... they'll call that Art ?????
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