If it's late Friday, it's time to admit US military abused the Koran

UPDATE: I've just updated this story. It looks to me like we just caught the military in a lie. See what I wrote below, but why did they reprimand a guard for what they're claiming wasn't his fault, i.e., the urine episode? Because they're lying to us.

Honey, I kicked the Koran.

Now the Bush administration is admitting a guard kicked a Koran and "accidentally" splashed urine on it. How exactly do you accidentally splash urine on a holy book? Apparently there are magical winds in Cuba that were able to waft the urine through air vents from a man peeing, and then amazingly deposit the urine in a prison cell on top of a Koran. Truly magical winds.

Think I'm kidding - this is what the military is claiming:

In the incident involving urine, which took place this past March, Southern Command said a guard left his post and urinated near an air vent and "the wind blew his urine through the vent" and into a cell block.

It said a detainee told guards the urine "splashed on him and his Koran." The statement said the detainee was given a new prison uniform and Koran, and that the guard was reprimanded and given duty in which he had no contact with prisoners.

Of course, this is interesting. Why did the military reprimand the guard if the wind simply blew his urine onto the Koran? That's not a basis for a reprimand. What's going on here? Was it intentional or not? The military clearly is saying it was not intentional, but then they reprimanded the guard? For what? Sloppy urination?

Funny we find out about this on a Friday night at 7:45pm.

AP has a more detailed report on this:

The Pentagon on Friday confirmed for the first time that a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's Muslim holy book in violation of the military's rules for handling the Quran.

In other confirmed incidents, prison guards threw water balloons in a cell block, causing an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard's urine splashed on a detainee and his Quran; an interrogator stepped on a Quran during an interrogation; and a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.