Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Dozens Have Alleged Koran's Mishandling

Dozens Have Alleged Koran's Mishandling: "# Complaints by inmates in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba emerged early. In 2003, the Pentagon set a sensitivity policy after trouble at Guantanamo.

By Richard A. Serrano and John Daniszewski, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — Senior Bush administration officials reacted with outrage to a Newsweek report that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility, and the magazine retracted the story last week. But allegations of disrespectful treatment of Islam's holy book are far from rare."

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