Its about damned time...Somebody finally wrote a HEADLINE stating that this was NOT a new story.
I just found this WaPo article, stating what I have been SCREAMING (in my head, at least) all day...The Koran story was nothing new! It's has been reported several times before over the last two years.
To Wit:
Desecration of Koran Had Been Reported Before
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 18, 2005; Page A12
Newsweek magazine's now-retracted story that a military guard at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet has sparked angry denunciations by the White House and the Pentagon, which have linked the article to Muslim riots and deaths abroad.
But American and international media have widely reported similar allegations from detainees and others of desecration of the Muslim holy book for more than two years.
The article went on to say that these incidents were responsible for a mass suicide attempt at gitmo:
[editor's note, by mlkisler] My bad...THIS article states the detainees went on a hunger strike. An article I read yesterday, but now can't find, said it triggered a mass suicide attempt. Sorry for the confusion.
James Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the prison who was investigated and cleared of charges of mishandling classified material, has asserted that guards' mishandling and mistreatment of detainees' Korans led the prisoners to launch a hunger strike in March 2002. Detainee lawyers, attributing their information to an interrogator, have said the strike ended only when military leaders issued an apology to the detainees over the camp loudspeaker. But they said mishandling of the Koran persisted.
They also cite another translator, who has written a book. He stated that he had seen the Koran "mishandled", but never witnessed anyone flushing it down a toilet.
Nice to see the MSM growing some backbone.