Assalamu aleikum. The admissions constitute only the tip of the iceberg.
Numerous other cases of dajjal-ordered "mishandling" of the Holy Qur'an have been documented. It's time to mark the floors of public toilets with crucifix symbols and allow urine to "accidentally" drip onto them. --- US details Guantanamo 'mishandling' of Koran By Will Dunham Reuters Friday Jun 3, 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8695349 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military for the first time on Friday detailed how jailers at Guantanamo mishandled the Koran, including a case in which a guard's urine splashed onto the Islamic holy book and others in which it was kicked, stepped on and soaked by water. U.S. Southern Command, responsible for the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, described five cases of "mishandling" of a Koran by U.S. personnel confirmed by a newly completed military inquiry, officials said in a statement. In the incident involving urine, which took place this past March, Southern Command said a guard left his post and urinated near an air vent and "the wind blew his urine through the vent" and into a cell block. It said a detainee told guards the urine "splashed on him and his Koran." The statement said the detainee was given a new prison uniform and Koran, and that the guard was reprimanded and given duty in which he had no contact with prisoners. Southern Command said a civilian contractor interrogator, who was later fired, apologized in July 2003 to a detainee for stepping on his Koran. In August 2003, prisoners' Korans became wet when night-shift guards threw water balloons in a cell block, the statement said. In February 2002, guards kicked a prisoner's Koran, it added. In the fifth "confirmed incident" of mishandling a Koran, Southern Command said a prisoner in August 2003 complained that "a two-word obscenity" had been written in English in his Koran. Southern Command said it was "possible" a guard had written the words but "equally possible" the prisoner himself had done but they did not offer any explanation of his possible motive. Southern Command released its findings late on Friday night. Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, commander of the Guantanamo prison, disclosed on May 26 that a military inquiry he headed turned up five cases of "mishandling of a Koran" by U.S. personnel at Guantanamo, but declined at the time to describe the incidents other than saying they did not involve flushing one down a toilet. In the statement, Hood said the inquiry found "no credible evidence" that a member of the military joint task force at Guantanamo ever flushed a Koran down a toilet. "The matter is considered closed," Hood stated. Hood said there were four additional incidents of "alleged mishandling" of the Koran that "we cannot determine conclusively if they actually happened." "Mishandling a Koran at Guantanamo Bay is a rare occurrence. Mishandling of a Koran here is never condoned," Hood said. U.S. Southern Command, responsible for Guantanamo, launched the inquiry after a May 9 Newsweek article, later retracted by the magazine, that stated U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had flushed a Koran down a toilet to try to make detainees talk. Violent protests erupted in some Muslim countries following the article's publication and at least 16 people died in rioting in Afghanistan. The United States holds about 520 detainees at Guantanamo, most caught in Afghanistan, and has deemed them "enemy combatants" not entitled to rights given to prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. The high-security prison opened in January 2002 for non-U.S. citizens caught in the U.S. war on terrorism, and many prisoners have been held more than three years without charges. President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week defended Guantanamo from criticism by Amnesty International, which called the jail the "gulag of our times." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8695349 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. Click Here to meet a Child you can help. http://us.click.yahoo.com/sTR6_D/I_qJAA/i1hLAA/TXWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** {Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. 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