Pee on your holy book
- by Pixel
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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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…
They’ve done worse…
You should pick up the may/june issue of Adbusters. Quite the interesting read. One article outlines what was done to an Australian prisoner at Guantanamo. Mamdouh Habib: “…was beaten, he says, with a club, assaulted with a dildo, electrified, told a dog would rape him, burned with cigarettes, told his wife and children had been killed, kept in a tiny cell for months, made to run in flesh-tearing shackles, and menstruated on by a whore as part of a series of interrogations that failed… The [Australian] government then said no Australians had done this, and when one of them confessed he had, said it wasn’t an interrogation, it was an ‘interview’, where no ‘duress’ had been suffered”.
meh. I had further comments but there are really no words…