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  • FBI records cite Quran abuse allegations

    05/25/2005 1:36:36 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 27 replies · 908+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/25/05 | Robert Burns - AP
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison told U.S. interrogators as early as April 2002, just four months after the first detainees arrived, that military guards abused them and desecrated the Quran, declassified FBI records say. "Their behavior is bad," one detainee is quoted as saying of his guards during an interrogation by an FBI special agent in July 2002. "About five months ago the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Quran in the toilet." The statements about guards disrespecting the Quran echo public allegations made many months later by some detainees and their lawyers after...