The Old Late Friday Media Trick: Pentagon Admits Koran Abus
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Pentagon Admits Koran Abuse. So Newsweek was right.
Brilliant to release the news on a late Friday. Weekends are busy with picnics, chores... Too few eyes are on the news.
"The Pentagon on Friday released new details about mishandling of the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, confirming that a soldier deliberately kicked the Muslim holy book and that an interrogator stepped on a Quran and was later fired for "a pattern of unacceptable behavior." In other confirmed incidents, a guard's urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran. "
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