Pentagon: Inquiry substantiates Koran "mishandling"

[Bluebear]

Joint Task Force Guantanamo Commander Brig. Gen. Jay W. Hood briefs the media regarding the inquiry into allegations of possible mishandling of the Quran, Thursday, May 26, 2005 at the Pentagon in Washington.


WASHINGTON - U.S. officials have substantiated five cases in which military guards or interrogators mishandled the Quran of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay but found "no credible evidence" to confirm a prisoner's report that a holy book was flushed in a toilet, the prison's commander said Thursday...

"I'd like you to know that we have found no credible evidence that a member of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay ever flushed a Quran down a toilet," Hood said. "We did identify 13 incidents of alleged mishandling of the Quran by Joint Task Force personnel. Ten of those were by a guard and three by interrogators."

Of the 13 alleged incidents, five were substantiated, he said. Four were by guards and one was by an interrogator. Hood said the five cases "could be broadly defined as mishandling" of the holy book, but he refused to discuss details.

In three of the five cases, the mishandling appears to have been deliberate. In the other two, it apparently was accidental.


edit for link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050526/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_quran_19

[rfranklin]

1. Anyone with a brain knows that the Koran flushed down the toilet is a lie.

It would never go down unless maybe it was miniature version.

[Sparkly]

4. I don't care if they flushed two pages

or flushed it whole and it DIDn't "go down," it's not at issue to the truth of the statements.

[kliljedahl]

7. The operative word is "flushed"

Read the reports, all they have are pit toilets & in many cases buckets. It should have been worded "placed in", not "flushed".


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[stopbush]

2. Wiggle room:

"we found no credible evidence that a member of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay ever flushed a Quran down a toilet,"

Translation: Of course, it may have been done by someone who we don't consider part of the joint Task Force...

[Bluebear]

3. You translate impeccably. n/t

[yellowcanine]

5. They placed it IN the toilet but no flushage occurred so it is win-win

Interrogator got his information, prisoner got to keep his Koran

[DulceDecorum]

6. Ladies

look at the expression on that face
and tell me if you believe a word he saying.

[DistressedAmerican]

8. Oh Thanks For This Link. Had To Do SOMETHING With That Photo!