American Zen

[gilliam]

While the world debated whether an American guard at Guantanamo really flushed a Koran down a toilet, Robert Mugabe may have bulldozed the homes of 1.5 million Zimbabweans. nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200507011051.asp

 

[HagiaSophia]

gilliam:

While the world debated whether an American guard at Guantanamo really flushed a Koran down a toilet, Robert Mugabe may have bulldozed the homes of 1.5 million Zimbabweans. nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200507011051.asp

I was always curious about the claim — ittsn’t it well over 8-900 pages?

 

[gilliam]

HagiaSophia:

I was always curious about the claim — ittsn’t it well over 8-900 pages?

He ‘attempted’ to flush it down the toilet. He didn’t succeed.

Three of the detainee cases involved spitting or throwing urine on Korans, and in one case, on Jan. 19, 2005, a detainee allegedly “tore up his Koran and tried to flush it down the toilet,” according to the report. Four days later, a detainee ripped pages from the book and tried to flush them down the toilet as a protest, because he wanted to be moved to another part of the camp.

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060301654.html