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.
*shrugs*
Jj_fate had to be hindered by something to type the way he did.
Pentagon Confirms Ban Incident at Zotmo
Posted by MikeinIraq to bigsigh
On News/Activism 06/04/2005 12:04:41 PM PDT · 130 of 160
no I continue to ignore it because you are WRONG.
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LOL!
"Nuance"??
Now you sound like John Kerry.
Give it up.
This wasn't a mere 'newbie', thiis was a troll.
And an obvious one.
I still .liked your comment on that now pulled thread about 'juvenile zotting', and that was on a thread where it was even MORE obvious that it was posted by a troll.
How about you get better causes to defend?
Yeah, you don't quit.
You haven't shut up yet, and you haven't stoppped defending trolls.
[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.]
OH!!! THE HUMANITY!!!
Once again, I was commenting on the early responses in a thread before it's known if the person is a troll or just a newbie. If you'd read more carefully, you could have time to do more of your fabulous poster research and stop wasting bandwidth. Try to read what I've typed and you'll be off to a good start. You read my bio and yet you missed a simple comment on this thread and continue to build an argument based on your misreading.
If you can respond with something engaging, I may return.
Anyone who wants this image, this is a freebe site with limited bandwidth. Feel free to steal it and stick it on your own site if you want. I'm a Photoshop newbie, that was an experiment. If I get the chance to creat further images, I'll pop for more bandwidth. 'Till then...well....the image might stop showing up when the BW limit runs out.
"In case you don't know, being able to pick up nuances in reading is a sign of intellect."
"It's the meaning of 'is', don't you know."
If that is the measure of your intellect, then you are in a sad state.
You're lying. Good bye, have a happy life, troll.
It is clear you are either below average in comprehension or you're just here for an argument.
Have fun with your freeper files and misread someone else for awhile.
Paranoia is unbecoming.
Trust me on this. Both Hubby and me ARE part of Homeland Security.
nice combo!
"In case you don't know, being able to pick up nuances in reading is a sign of intellect."
Scintellating repartee, worthy of JohnGalt and old Asmodeus, may they rot forever.
Made even better by your defense of the troll.
(Post 127 by the way.)
And then garnished with your petulant admittance of defeat with this:
"If you can respond with something engaging, I may return."
But you're failing to get the 'nuance' big time, bigsigh.
What are you doing hanging out with those of us below the 3rd grade reading level? Don't you have something else to do besides being associated with us riff-raff?
Do you really think someone who has done what I've done here will be driven away by the posse of a second rate poster?
Thanx for the admission. It merely proves what I said about your running partner.
As a troll said before, amazingly you didn't defend that one, "by the way, have you googled depledted uranium yet?"
"Do you really think someone who has done what I've done here will be driven away by the posse of a second rate poster?"
No, I suspect you'll defend the wrong troll and get slammed back like a smoking mug of steaming troll.
Cruel to speak of yourself that way anyway.
You're missing the nuance again.
You have failed the global test, sorry.
Uh, what? Was that post intended for me?
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