The Pentagon has admitted for the first time that a soldier deliberately kicked the Koran at Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, and that an interrogator stepped on the Muslim holy book and was later sacked for “a pattern of unacceptable behaviour”.

US officials have substantiated five cases in which military guards or interrogators mishandled the Koran of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

FBI DOCUMENTS have revealed that Guantanamo Bay detainees repeatedly complained the military guards and interrogators mistreated the Koran.

Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the United States military base in Guantanamo Bay on Cuba during a mass protest in 2003, the United States military confirmed.

Detainees at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay have provided little intelligence and their value has been exaggerated by the Bush Administration, a newspaper investigation claimed today.