So Newsweek was basically right. Oh, sure, DOD is saying that they still can't find evidence of a Quran being flushed down a toilet, but they did find that it was intentionally "mishandled" as they say. Funny, but I recall Scott McClellan saying there was NO mishandling of the Quran?
From AP:
"We did identify 13 incidents of alleged mishandling of the Quran by Joint Task Force personnel. Ten of those were by a guard and three by interrogators."Then there's my favorite part of the article:
Of the 13 alleged incidents, five were substantiated, he said. Four were by guards and one was by an interrogator. Hood said the five cases "could be broadly defined as mishandling" of the holy book, but he refused to discuss details.
In three of the five cases, the mishandling appears to have been deliberate. In the other two, it apparently was accidental.
"None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred," Hood said.Oh, so you mean it was US policy to intentionally mishandle the Quran. Nice.
