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| Former Guantanamo prisoners freed by Pakistan allege abuse of Koran |
| 2005-06-27 |
| Suuurprise suuurprise surprise! Seventeen former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay who were detained on their return home to Pakistan were freed, with many alleging they had witnessed the desecration of the Koran at the US jail. I may go out and buy one just so I can wipe my ass with it. The men came back to Pakistan around nine months ago after being cleared by US authorities. They were finally released from a Pakistani jail after promising not to take part in militant activities. ...and if you can't trust a terrorist, who can you trust? "American soldiers have been committing desecration of the holy Koran at Guantanamo," Haifz Ehsan Saeed, 27, told AFP as he emerged from the central jail in the city of Lahore."There were various incidents. Once I saw them throw the Koran in a bucket full of urine and faeces," he said. Just once? Saeed said he was arrested four years ago in Afghanistan on charges of having links with the Al-Qaeda terror network. He was kept in a jail run by brutal Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam and then shifted to Guantanamo."The Americans declared me innocent but yet I have been in prison for about nine months in Rawalpindi and Lahore after being released from Guantanamo Bay," he said. "I am not ashamed because I have not done any wrong act," Saeed added. Just checking out the school system in Afghanistan. Or was I a holy man? I forget. Another freed prisoner, 25-year-old Muhammad Hanif, said he was tortured and his beard was forcibly shaved by the US troops at the military jail in Cuba."The Americans removed our beards and have been spitting over the holy book," Hanif told AFP. Look sharp, feel sharp. The inmates at Guantanamo Bay protested at the abuse of the Islamic holy book and went on hunger strikes, he said. A real hunger strike or one of those 20 minute Palestinian ones? A Pakistani official said the men had been released on the orders of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Thanks, Perv. "We have released 17 prisoners after their parents and guardians furnished guarantees that they would not indulge in terrorist activities," said Tahir Ashrafi, the provincial government's advisor on religious affairs. Mom and dad vouched for them, so go and sin no more. Musharraf earlier this month condemned the desecration of the Koran as an "unpardonable" act and backed calls for the punishment of those found guilty. Frequent protest rallies were held in Pakistan after a report in Newsweek magazine in early May said Guantanamo Bay interrogators threw a Koran in a toilet to rattle Muslim inmates. Newsweek later retracted the story. And Newsweek would never lie. Except for when they retracted the story. The US Defense Department, announcing the result of an investigation this month, said that overall US soldiers at the camp handled the Islamic holy book with respect. But it said military personnel at Guantanamo Bay once kicked the Koran and a copy was sprayed with urine in another incident. Let's play "Kick the Koran"! |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 YS - nice pic - saved, thks. Will display at every non-outraged IED bomb of a moskkkk |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-27 23:43 |
| #8 Where are the trolls? That's the best bait I've seen here yet. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2005-06-27 20:25 |
| #7 And no pony rides after lunch! Please call AI and have their SWAT team deployed to gitmo. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-06-27 17:58 |
| #6 Uh oh.... Ima repeating myself again. Was it the same article? Noooooooooooo! Im tooo young. Letz do it right. In my day we used to crush Bat Roaches on sight instead of molly coddlying their overly shellacked bodies. /old and nutz right down the road |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-27 17:15 |
| #5 Frankly I consider Tropic of Cancer vastly more spiritual than the the "H''Oley ""K'Q''ram'' |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-27 15:51 |
| #4 YS - Piss Koran? |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-06-27 15:40 |
| #3 All these abuse stories are making me want to get a Koran and desecrate it. Seriously, who is surprised? |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-06-27 15:19 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2005-06-27 14:38 |
| #1 Just shoot these |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-06-27 14:26 |