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  • Gitmo Study Sparks Arab Probe of Bible Abuse

    06/04/2005 8:23:47 AM PDT · by kpp_kpp · 32 replies · 1,058+ views
    ScrappleFace ^ | 06/04/2005 | Scott Ott
    (2005-06-04) -- Friday's release of a Pentagon study on mishandling of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay detention center has sparked Saudi Arabia's leader to call for similar probes of Bible handling in detention facilities throughout the Muslim world. Since May, the Pentagon has examined thousands of pages of documentation, finding five confirmed cases of Koran mishandling by U.S. personnel, and 15 cases in which Muslim prisoners desecrated their own complimentary copies of the book that they had received from the U.S. government. The Pentagon has distributed some 1,600 taxpayer-funded copies of the Muslim Holy Book to suspected terrorists detained at...