U.S.: No Outrage Over Quran Mishandling

[sabra]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5056273,00.html

U.S.: No Outrage Over Quran Mishandling

By ROBERT BURNS

AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The disclosure that U.S. guards or interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison kicked, stepped on and splashed urine on the Quran has not triggered the kind of public outrage that erupted after an earlier news report of a Quran being flushed in a toilet, a Pentagon official said Monday.

``It's not playing at all'' as a catalyst for violent protest in Muslim nations, said Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman.

Whitman said he based his comment on conversations Monday and over the weekend with U.S. officials in Iraq and Afghanistan, where much of the earlier protest violence had happened. The Bush administration had blamed the earlier violence on a Newsweek report - later retracted by the magazine - that U.S. investigators at Guantanamo Bay had confirmed that a guard had deliberately flushed a prisoner's Quran down a toilet.

Whitman said it was too early to know for sure how the latest disclosures will be seen in the Muslim world.
``What this inquiry has demonstrated is that there have been procedures in place ever since the beginning of operations at Guantanamo that reflected a sensitivity to cultural and religious aspects of the detainees that were there,'' he said, and that in the vast majority of instances the Quran was not mishandled.

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[patdem]

1. If not for Newsweek, we might not have invaded Iraq at all...damn

weekly magazines! :grr:

[Inland]

2. My guess: seething resentment

waiting for a chance to tell America to fuck off or to punish leaders who cooperate with us.

[aden_nak]

3. I still want to know where you buy a toilet with a garbage disposal in it.

I know if I tried to flush even a PAMPHLET down my toilet, I'd been scraping around in there with a coathanger before an hour was up.

[understandinglife]

4. "Terrorists 'Using Guantanamo as a Recruitment Aid'"

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=644566


June 3, 2005: Bangladeshi Muslim women in veils holding copies of the holy Koran join a protest march against the reported desecration of the holy Koran by US soldiers in military prison in Guantanamo Bay and in an Iraqi mosque in Dhaka.(Photo: Rafiqur Rahman / Reuters)

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - We have all the evidence of mendacity and illegal war-making we need to indict and prosecute Bush, Blair and every other neoconster scum-bag on the planet having any involvement in the Bush's illegal war on Iraq and all the torture and other atrocities that have been committed since August 2002.

[damntexdem]

5. Sorry, all the outrage was used up on Newsweek. But don't worry:

there is more than enough outrage in the Middle East to go around.