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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:06 pm    Post subject: %@*& Reuters wants to start another riot???? Reply with quote

%@*& Reuters wants to start another riot????
What's your first thought when you see the headline?
I thought "OH MY GOSH"!!

FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards flushing Koran
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Wed May 25, 7:58 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.

The Pentagon said the allegation was not credible.

The declassified document's release came the week after the Bush administration denounced as wrong a May 9 Newsweek article that stated U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had flushed a Koran down a toilet to try to make detainees talk. The magazine retracted the article, which had triggered protests in Afghanistan in which 16 people died.

The newly released document, dated Aug. 1, 2002, contained a summary of......

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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it can fairly be stated that Reuters has ceased to be a news entity and has crossed into the realm of a full-fledged anti-American propagandist. It is not lost on me that encouraging anti-American hatred within the Muslim world has the interesting side effect of keeping Reuter's own backyard less terrorist attractive.

See Powerline for a post up yesterday referencing Reuter's "take" on Owens' credentials...makes you sick.
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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2005 11:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Pentagon said the allegation was not credible.


It's not credible to think that you can flush even a paperback-sized book down a toilet. It's usually 3 inch pipe (or less) and there's a gooseneck P-trap that it would never get through, even if it was capable of starting down the 3 inch section. The Koran's I saw in the T.V. coverage were a lot bigger than a paperback.
I have a solution to this: who said terrorists (these are not POWs remember) get to have access to reading material? If giving them a Koran is going to cause trouble, take them away. End of problem.
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