So it looks like a guard at Gitmo may have accidentally had some piss hit a Quran. Big deal. I get piss splashback on my shoes fortnightly, and isn't that far more offensive? Anyway Dan Riehl uncovers more Koran pissing abuse here and he has the video to prove the allegations this time. Can anyone recall any violence when that jackass photographed himself with a crucifix up his butt and in again in a bottle of urine? No? I wonder why that is? Scotsman

THERE were fears of renewed violence in Islamic countries after US military officials confirmed that a copy of the Koran was splashed with urine at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terror suspects.

The report said none of the guards at the facility flushed the Muslim holy book down the toilet, a claim in Newsweek magazine that provoked protests in Afghanistan.

Among other newly disclosed incidents cited in a Pentagon report on the mishandling of the sacred text at the prison were reports that a detainee's Koran was deliberately kicked and another's was stepped on.

On March 25, a detainee complained to guards that "urine came through an air vent" and splashed on him and his Koran. A guard admitted he was at fault, but the report did not make clear whether the guard intended the outcome.

The findings are among the results of an investigation last month by Brigadier General Jay Hood, the commander of the detention centre in Cuba. The investigation was triggered by the Newsweek report, later retracted, that a US soldier had flushed one camp detainee's Koran down a toilet.

In other incidents cited in the report, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Korans to get wet, and a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Koran.

Hood said his investigation "revealed a consistent, documented policy of respectful handling of the Koran dating back almost 2 1/2 years".

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