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Koran Abuse Incidents
Detailed
An unhappy General Jay W. Hood calls
incidents unacceptable
The U.S. military has released unsettling new details about the five
confirmed cases of American military personnel disrespecting the Koran at
Guantanamo Bay prison. Brig. Gen. Jay W. Hood, commander of
Joint Task Force Guantanamo, inadvertently made a snarly face as he relayed
the information about the incidents. The general has just completed a
grueling three-week inquiry into reports of mishandling of the Koran,
conducted primarily of extensive Googling of legitimate news sites. He
confirmed five cases of intentional or unintentional mishandling of the holy
book, including two where soldiers reportedly ate pork or pork by-products
while studying the text. Both of these incidents occurred before the
Pentagon had issued guidance in the form of Koran Handling Guidelines
RD.1301-6.
Three incidents, however, took place after
RD.1301-6 had been disseminated to the field.
Hood's investigation also verified 437 incidents of detainees
desecrating Korans. The other incidents documented in the report were as
follows.
The Koran was used as
coaster by a female enlisted driver who put a
frosty Budweiser on top of the holy book, leaving a big ring on the top. SPC
Mary Kay Blevins claimed in her defense that her commanding officer had
ordered her to put something under her beer so as to not mess up his coffee
table. Blevins has been discharged from the Army with loss of benefits.
The Koran was placed on
a shelf beside a Sidney Sheldon novel by a female
Private First Class who is probably a lesbian. The solder, Kim Keaton of
Scranton, Pennsylvania, claimed to not know that Sheldon's books are
considered unclean by the followers of Islam. She has been reduced in rank
to Private No Class.
A female enlisted
logistics specialist used the Koran to spank her commanding officer.
The most egregious of all the validated incidents was
this act committed by abominable SPC Cindy Whitaker of Wheeler, West
Virginia. Even casual touching of the Koran to the human posterior is
strictly forbidden. In her defense Whitaker is claiming that the officer
asked for her to smack him with something harder, and that "this was the
hardest thing in the room," a claim that the prosecutor says "is not bloody
likely". Whitaker is scheduled for court-martial hearings, and could receive
up to ten years behind bars.
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