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.
LOL!
Sniff, sniff. So sad, such a short but zotty life.
More prophetic words were never spoken.
*grins*
hehe
I dont know what nci.org really is, but I dont care...
the "Plutonium on the Internet" works great for ZOTs hehe
Ya know what? I kinda agree with you, and that is really saying something for me. After all, when a group of Muslim terrorists massacre hundreds of Christians and forcibly convert the survivors to Islam, what do THEY do to the Bibles?
Anyone?
heh heh heh heh /evil laugh
If you have not disappeared into the ozone, it was the Pentagon that released the information which, last I checked, was part of the government.
Bring me a Qu'ran. Oh, I'm sorry. That was so insensitive of me. And while we're discussing Islam let's just forgive and forget those little incidents of American hostages decapitations. Oh and the burned bodies hung on the bridge in Fallujah? Don't sweat it MohamMed.
"Paved." LOL. You two always get me goin'. :-)
We aim to please.
I don't care if they their arses with it. The bible is burned by these same people and not a word is said. The left is usually anti-religion until that relgion is anti-Ametrican. Then, they get all sorts of special treatment. These islamic lunatics want to kill us. They are beheading people in the name of Allah. The reason these complaints work is because we (well, not me personally) do care about these fanatics and they are treated better than they would be by their own.
I vote we violate his squeedleyspooche!
ZOT! Troll scum...
YES!
Make that wipe their arses.....too early for me to be posting.
I'll get the bat and the Tabasco. You bring the nails and the turpentine!
*digging in toolkit*
Got crazy glue as well.
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