Koran desecrated, claim Guantanamo detainees

PAKISTANIS freed from Guantanamo Bay claimed they saw US interrogators throw, tear and stand on copies of Islam's holy book, and one former detainee said naked women sat on prisoners' chests during questioning.

The Pentagon denied the accusations and said al-Qaida training manuals instruct prisoners to make such false charges.

The men acknowledged that they were aware of the international furore caused by previous reports about Koran desecrations. Such reports triggered protests across the Islamic world and deadly riots in Afghanistan last month.