US military confirms Guantanamo Koran Abuse
International News
© ABC 2005 10:32 AM June 4
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.
-ReutersSource: Reuters
© ABC 2005 10:32 AM June 4
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.
-ReutersSource: Reuters
posted by Aaisha at 6/04/2005 05:25:00 pm
3 Comments:
Again, what else can we expect?
hey, when i first heard about these stuff, i got really mad. but then i realized, that no matter what they do, they cant do anthing to Islam. Allah has a plan for all of us. and besides, all they are doing is increasing their punishment in hell. its only a matter of time till they realize that.
It is an attempt at debasing Islam. However, we must not allow such acts to lower our actions to their demotic levels. In abstaining from taking our out disgust through violent means, we remain all the more sin-free (for want of a better word). However, this is not to say "don't defend yourself"...what I mean is use wisdom before you use your hands.
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