Posted on 06/04/2005 10:33:08 AM PDT by freeperskickbutt
ASHINGTON - 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.
I know what happens here, and it's become quite juvenile in the race to call out new people.
does that happen? Yes, but 95% of the time, it's a troll....
JimRob posted on a ZOT thread a couple weeks ago where some idiot had come up with 20 something different names and had been zotted every time....
**snort** Thanks. Haven't had much chance to do any seriously fun, online surfing in months and am probably out of the cyberfun loop. She has though. I'll send it to her and IF she hasn't already found and saved that, I'm sure she'll love it.
IMO we have lost a lot in our rush to call every newbie who doesn't set out cookies and milk a troll and "get in before the thread."
An Indian walks into a grocers with a roll of no brand name toilet paper, that he had bought there, and said to the grocer; "I have a name for your no name toilet paper!"
The grocer says; "And what would that be?"
The Indian says; "John Wayne toilet paper - it's rough and it's tough, and it takes no s*** from Indian!!!"
no I continue to ignore it because you are WRONG.
ROTFLMAO! you're doing an excellent job of ignoring me. What does it look like when you reply?
yeah I guess that was funny (?)....
I don't know. To me, on this side, they look like letters that form words, words that form sentences. What do they look like to YOU?
when you can focus and figure out what you want to say, give me a ping. Or you can keep on ignoring me.
LOL!!
yeah, hold your breath for that one!! LOL
from some reason, I think YOU may be a troll.....
anyone?
"See, it DID happen!"
This was not a difficult call.
Agreed. Sleeper, IMO.
Probably because he is also 'breakem' and 'verifythentrust'.
Reading his bio page as breakem is quite enlightening.
He also likes to defend trolls, which makes me think he is a troll.
But... it may just be that he is severely misguided.
Reading this post, I now take back my 'possibly severely misguided' and say that you are a full on troll defending idiot due to BEING a troll.
Obviously, you did not bother READING the posts by 'freeperskickbutt'.
Don't bother taking down your bio pages either, I already saved them.
DOUBLE ZOT THREAD!!!
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