Okay, NOW they can riot and kill

According to the AP, the Pentagon has now confirmed that on certain occasions, American guards at Gitmo have, in fact, done mean things to the Koran. One guard stomped on a Koran; another kicked one; somebody wrote naughty words inside the cover of one; an interrogator tossed one in a bag of laundry; and somebody urinated on one.

The story adds (in various places) that the book stomper was fired; the pee-pee guard got transferred to gate duty (He accidentally sprinkled the holy book while relieving himself in front of an air vent); and that there were fifteen confirmed cases of internees desecrating Korans.

Also, someone did try to flush a Koran down a toilet.

It was an internee.

I, for one, am outraged that the people in charge at Gitmo would allow these abuses. There is no excuse for a single Moslem holy book desecration taking place down there. If we seriously wanted to prevent Koran molestation from taking place at Gitmo, we need only remove all copies of the book from the base.

But then the Red Cross would climb all over us. After all, the internees wouldn't know what to use for toilet paper.

Found through Drudge.