FBI reveals further Koran complaints

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

FBI reveals further Koran complaints

Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita said investigators conducting a “commanders inquiry” into a Newsweek report of a Koran being flushed down a toilet had found a log entry from August 2002 that recorded a similar allegation by the same detainee.

However, he said that many allegations of mistreatment of the Koran were looked into at the time by the commander of the guards, but he insisted “they just weren’t credible on their face” because they ran counter to the policies in place at the prison.

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