Regarding the White House generated storm over the Newsweek story about the possible desecration of the Koran (Quran)…
“The Newsweek report was not the first public airing of allegations about U.S. personnel at Guantánamo Bay desecrating a Quran. In August and October 2004 there were news reports based on a lawsuit and a written report by British citizens who had been released from the prison in Cuba. They claimed abuse by U.S. guards, including throwing their Qurans into the toilet.
In January, Kristine Huskey, a lawyer representing Kuwaitis detained at Guantánamo, said they claimed to have been abused and in one case a detainee watched a guard throw a Quran into a toilet.”
I think we know that it is certainly possible that the event could have happened. A lot of people didn’t believe the events at Abu Ghraib prison occurred either…until they saw the photos.
Methinks the White House doth protest a bit too much!
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