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Pentagon Confirms Ban Incident at Zotmo

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: gitmo; korandesecration; lolzotmolol; ozoneactionthread; troll; zot; zotamazoo; zotme; zotmeharder; zotmo; zotmysorryass; zuluoscartango
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To: Monkey Face

*snort*
Not sure he'd appreciate the humor of the place.
Especially since it is the continued dance upon the grave of a troll.


261 posted on 06/04/2005 6:50:07 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Darksheare

Perhaps he will come to like the cadence of the dance...if not the *ahem* partners...;o]


262 posted on 06/04/2005 6:52:10 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It may be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.)
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To: Monkey Face

Not likely.
He'll see it as 'reactionary'.
*snort*


263 posted on 06/04/2005 6:52:59 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Darksheare

Ah...but you forget: he will be in the lower regions of the castle with his candle...


264 posted on 06/04/2005 6:53:57 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It may be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.)
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To: Monkey Face

*puff -candle blown out by zombies*


265 posted on 06/04/2005 6:57:47 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Darksheare
pssst....over here
266 posted on 06/04/2005 7:02:11 PM PDT by DocRock
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To: DocRock

Perhaps he'd like to defend that one as well.
;-) *Snort*


267 posted on 06/04/2005 7:03:43 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Miss Behave

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.


268 posted on 06/04/2005 7:07:37 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: bigsigh

Not looking for a fight, but you look like you are.

Take the chip off and go find a nice f-chat thread.


269 posted on 06/04/2005 7:08:50 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Of all the idiots I've known in my life, none of them were retarded (W. Earl Brown - "Warren," SAM))
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To: freedumb2003

He says he's crusading against reactionary posters.
(Check out post 127.)


270 posted on 06/04/2005 7:11:17 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Darksheare
He says he's crusading against reactionary posters.

He's crusading against EVERY SINGLE DENIZEN of FR?

;)

271 posted on 06/04/2005 7:12:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Of all the idiots I've known in my life, none of them were retarded (W. Earl Brown - "Warren," SAM))
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To: Darksheare

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.


272 posted on 06/04/2005 7:13:34 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: freedumb2003

Yeah.
He also looks for nuance.
(Posts 160 and 166.)


273 posted on 06/04/2005 7:13:41 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: AFPhys

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.


274 posted on 06/04/2005 7:18:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Monkey Face

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.


275 posted on 06/04/2005 7:22:11 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Monkey Face

I initially saw LARK as a thread around here somewhere.


276 posted on 06/04/2005 7:28:40 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Darksheare

"Jj_fate had to be hindered by something to type the way he did."

Ripped on blotter acid?



277 posted on 06/04/2005 7:33:59 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: international american

Printing press fumes, that acetone can be a killer.


278 posted on 06/04/2005 7:37:22 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Darksheare

Very true


279 posted on 06/04/2005 7:41:25 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: freeperskickbutt

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.


280 posted on 06/04/2005 7:43:13 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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