Pee on your holy book

By Pixel at June 7, 2005 at 10:31 pm. Filed in seriously now

The U.S. Military admited Friday night that people at Guantanamo Bay “splashed a Koran with urine, kicked and stepped on the Islamic holy book and soaked it with water.”

For those of you too lazy to follow the link, check this out:

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 [my emphasis].

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 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.

Little note on this: news released on Friday nights and Saturdays reach the fewest amount of people on the count that people don’t read the paper if it’s not before work.

Cute, huh?

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