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Military releases Koran-abuse findings; Report: Detainees mishandled holy book more.(PAGE ONE)
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June 4, 2005
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Byline: Guy Taylor, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - An interrogator accidentally stepped on a prisoner's Koran, copies of Islam's holy text got wet when guards tossed water balloons into a cellblock and one was "splashed" by urine, according to the final results of a Pentagon probe.
But the investigation sparked by accusations in the press about desecration of the Koran here found "no credible evidence" that prison guards or interrogators "ever flushed a Koran down a toilet," the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the prison ...
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