Former Guantanamo prisoners freed by Pakistan allege abuse of Koran

[maddezmom]

LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - 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.

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.

"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.

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.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050627/pl_afp/pakistanusafghanistan_050627142105

[Gothmog]

1. Some of these stories are true

There have been too many stories along the same lines here. Some idiot at the pentagon tried to use the Koran for putting pressure on a detainee undergoing interrogation and it has backfired.

[brentspeak]

2. I'm not exactly heartbroken over a desecrated Koran

My concern is that Rumsfeld's orders to violate the Geneva Code will just mean American POWS will be more likely to be tortured and killed in retaliation.

[Solly Mack]

3. yes, yes...but what was he served for dinner? Get to the important stuff

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. lol

very funny

[jab105]

4. Whoops...sorry wrong thing...

n/t

[highnooner]

5. So, the BA was correct

when they said that the Quran was not thrown in a toilet -- Nice parsing of words again.

[Selteri]

6. The more the prisoners keep saying the same thing

the more that things look like they're telling the truth.

[mom cat]

8. Remember to make this one.