that particular article details mistreatment of prisoners but if the koran was mentioned I missed it. Here's a more specific reference.
military confirms Guantanamo Koran abuse By Reuters 06/03/05 "Reuters" - - US military officials have confirmed that American jailers at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba mishandled and abused the Islamic holy book, the Koran. A newly completed military inquiry has found US personnel splashed a Koran with urine, kicked it, stepped on it and soaked it with water. The inquiry was investigating five cases of alleged mishandling of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, which houses mainly foreign Muslims suspected of terrorism. In the incident involving urine, which took place this past March, Southern Command (responsible for the Guantanamo Bay jail) 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, apologised in July 2003 to a detainee for stepping on his Koran. In August 2003, prisoners' Korans became wet when night-shift guards had thrown 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 it. Southern Command released its findings on a Friday night. Copyright: Reuters On 7/26/05, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also don't forget that the Army did report on 5 specific instances > where the Koran was descrated: > > http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/13/guantanamo_probe_finds_violations/ > > To their credit, it was only five instances so far. > > larry > > On 7/26/05, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ah, ok. > > > > Got my crappy magazine reporting mixed up. > > > > > > > ok a) that was Newsweek and b) they weren't bogus, Newsweek got the > > > name of the report wrong. > > > > > > I was referring to > > > > > > http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1071284,00.html > > > > > > Dana > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:166610 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
