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.
*snort*
Not sure he'd appreciate the humor of the place.
Especially since it is the continued dance upon the grave of a troll.
Perhaps he will come to like the cadence of the dance...if not the *ahem* partners...;o]
Not likely.
He'll see it as 'reactionary'.
*snort*
Ah...but you forget: he will be in the lower regions of the castle with his candle...
*puff -candle blown out by zombies*
Perhaps he'd like to defend that one as well.
;-) *Snort*
Regarding your soothing words about road kill: My daughter has never has gotten very teary about this kind of problem - I've always treated death as part of the normal process of living. Even when she was as young as 3, we would get out of the car and study (recent and not too mangled) road kill. Five years later, we still do from time to time.
No matter, though, I will have to remember that "silly spot to take a nap" thing to tell my daughter sometime soon. She'll get a real kick out of it. I'll try to remember to tell you her reaction.
Not looking for a fight, but you look like you are.
Take the chip off and go find a nice f-chat thread.
He says he's crusading against reactionary posters.
(Check out post 127.)
He's crusading against EVERY SINGLE DENIZEN of FR?
;)
I loved your "inground fort - tiger/ poacher trap - skunk torture" story.
Ah, yes ... the joys of living in the sticks. I'll be sharing your story with my daughter so she can get even more luscious ideas.
Yeah.
He also looks for nuance.
(Posts 160 and 166.)
LOL!
Please tell me she won't do that for real..
Please.
*chuckle*
The guy had been bagging deer in our backyard for about three months, and near shot us a few times, so we felt no remorse that he got skunked after falling in a hole.
(He tripped on a rock and landed in the compost pit once after that.)
But it was rather amusing to hear and then see the aftermath.
Odd part, dad never had us fill that pit in.
I hope to see this post many times in the future on other threads. It ought to be exposed to everyone on FR. I've copied and mailed it to myself, and I'll be sending it on to some friends, and printing it and posting it on my office door.
I initially saw LARK as a thread around here somewhere.
"Jj_fate had to be hindered by something to type the way he did."
Ripped on blotter acid?
Printing press fumes, that acetone can be a killer.
Very true
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416641/posts
GITMO DETAINEES DESECRATE QURAN
By Michelle Malkin · June 03, 2005 09:57 PM
That's the headline you won't be reading over this AP story filed tonight on investigative findings released by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba.
Buried down in the AP story about Quran abuses at Gitmo, we learn:
[Hood] said his investigation found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own Qurans. "These included using a Quran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Quran, attempting to flush a Quran down the toilet and urinating on the Quran," Hood's report said. It offered no possible explanation for those alleged abuses.
In the most recent of those 15 cases, a detainee on Feb. 18, 2005, allegedly ripped up his Quran and handed it to a guard, stating that he had given up on being a Muslim. Several of the guards witnessed this, Hood reported.
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