WP: Pentagon Probes Detainee Reports Of Koran Dumping

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Pentagon Probes Detainee Reports Of Koran Dumping

By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 14, 2005; Page A16

Some Muslims detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have complained that U.S. soldiers dumped their Korans into the toilet. After riots this week in Afghanistan that were sparked by reports of the allegations, Pentagon officials said they are investigating.

But top U.S. military officials said they have not confirmed any such desecrations of the Islamic holy book at Guantanamo Bay. Defiling the Koran or otherwise showing disrespect for the detainees' Muslim faith is strictly against U.S. policy at the prison, military officials said.

Earlier this year, lawyers representing Kuwaitis held at Guantanamo said their clients told them that military police threw at least one Koran into a toilet. A released Afghan named Ehsannullah told The Washington Post in 2003 that U.S. soldiers taunted him by doing the same thing. Three Britons released last year also said Korans were put into toilets by U.S. guards.

Riots began in Afghanistan and Pakistan this week in part because of a Newsweek report that military investigators had confirmed allegations by FBI agents on detainee abuse, including an incident in which at least one Koran was thrown into a toilet. But military sources said yesterday that FBI agents made no such allegation and that the military did not look into Koran desecration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301377.html

[Teaser]

1. Well, if it's against their policy

then it must not have happened. The muslim world will thank us for clearing this up.

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2. Right. Torture is against our policy too. Rendering people to countries

who do torture is also against our policy. I heard the Pres say that himself at a press conference so I KNOW it is true. We don't do any of that stuff. Sure. I believe them. :eyes:

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3. "we'll investigate and if true will take action to make sure

it never happens again." (sarcasm)

same damn **** they said about 9*11 and every other failure and embarassment since.

Are there people out there still buying the "innocent" crap from the bush regime thugs?

[mike_c]

4. more whitewash....

Our torturers-- er, I mean interrogators-- are held to high moral standards. They'd never do anything like that. :sarcasm:

[bullimiami]

5. Official Pentagon Response

It never happened.

Then

It was rogue interrogators.

Then

Another lie,

Then

Another and another and another.

[KC21304]

6. Here's what the Pentagon did.

A friend of mine with Pentagon contacts tells a tragicomic story. The Pakistani government complained to the US Department of Defense about the desecration of the Koran. The Pentagon passed the protest to the Southeast Asia division. It looked into the matter in East Asia and responded that it could find no evidence that the US military had flushed a Korean down the toilet.

http:/juancole.com/

[UpInArms]

7. um... right-o then!

But top U.S. military officials said they have not confirmed any such desecrations of the Islamic holy book at Guantanamo Bay. Defiling the Koran or otherwise showing disrespect for the detainees' Muslim faith is strictly against U.S. policy at the prison, military officials said.

:rofl:

these folks do such great stand-up!

[Theduckno2]

8. Word has it that the Pentagon has satellite photos showing

that the Korans in question were travelling at 60 mph, overshooting the toilets and not going in! As for the FBI allegations, they were told "These aren't the droids you're looking for, Move along". All with a very heavy dose of :sarcasm:. These types of abuse only seem to add to the prospective pool of suicide bombers and rebels ("insurgents" to the ill informed)..