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.
More prophetic words were never spoken.
Newbie:"Doesn't change the fact that our government IS LYING to us!"
Explain - newbie soon to be zotted - the diversion between the headline and your statement that the Government is lying to us.
Hey DU!! Your troll showed up here. Identify and claim.
Read the rules. This is a gathering place for adults, not prepuscent children. It is owned by JimRob -- it is not a US Government site. You know, free speech doesn't apply to private sites, right? Or are you one of these boobs who thinks that the "rights" of the Hollywood Left are violated when we boycott their films, products, etc.?
No longer alive per post 41..
*A moment of laughter at the trolls' expiration*
no it is a gathering place for CONSERVATIVES. Add to that it is a PRIVATE FORUM and we can trash or post whatever we damned well please.
Your tripe, however, is HILARIOUS!!
hehehe
I have actually been giggling about this troll the entire time :)
Gone and forgotten. Nice strike, AM!
LOL
ok!! :)
I know.
How now shall we irreverence his corpse?
This a gathering place for troll BBQ's. And you're providing the fuel, the flame, the sauce, and the fresh meat. Keep going, you're doing fine.
Like sticking my panties on some man's head?
Get a life, freak.
We need to stop playing into their hands with this PC nonsense. It matters little if the Koran is kicked or looked at by infidels or whatever they're whining about. Why? Because they're quite capable of making up the lie of the day all year long. Al Jazeera and their ilk will trumpet US fictitious atrocities to the skies, and their own horrors are apparently okay...since they're against infidels. We should play by the same rules.
hehe I dont know, he has been electrocuted, paved and zotted.... :)
I can only think of one thing left to do!!
To assist you in enhancing the clarity of your posts, may I suggest "periods" after each logical sentence and a "Capital Letter" at the first position of the first word following a period.
You may do a search on "The Freepers Guide to Rules of Punctuation"
LOL!
May hogs pee on you for all eternity, troll.
Thankyou mother.
incident at Zotmo? NICE!!!!
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