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2007-02-14 Home Front: WoT

Muslim chaplain tells of Gitmo duty and ordeal

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Posted by ryuge 2007-02-14 08:34|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Boo hoo. Who cares...

Posted by tu3031 2007-02-14 09:26|| 2007-02-14 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2

"I will confirm that the Quran was being desecrated, disrespected and abused by American personnel in Guantanamo," he said. He said guards would often shake the book violently and pull back the bindings to see if anything dangerous fell out. "But nothing dangerous ever fell out of the Quran," he said.

Except the words of the false prophet -- bees pee upon him.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-02-14 09:51|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-02-14 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait, wait, wait.

The man was a soldier. He was an Army chaplain and a West Point grad. He did his job. He received an honorable discharge. There were allegations made against him, and as things turned out these really do seem to have been half-baked, schtoopid and ill-formed.

Now you can fairly go after him for his views, or the way he's parroting the NYT. But he was an honorable, US army soldier (unless and until someone proves differently), and I respect him for that, whatever his faith.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-02-14 10:36|| 2007-02-14 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL.

Prisoners reported that naked female interrogators would rub against them, a strong violation of their conservative view toward relations between the sexes. He discusses this "secret weapon" in detail in his book "For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire." Yee said prisoners protested the mistreatment of their holy text, the Quran, by mass suicide attempts and hunger strikes.

Any mention of the attempts to kill or harm US soldiers guarding them?

Posted by Anon4021 2007-02-14 12:17|| 2007-02-14 12:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Since he has been discharged he has done more than parrot the NYTimes.

He has, I'm convinced, lied about the harshness of his own detainment, promolguted lies told by the detainees and failed to report misbehaviour of the detainees.

This makes me think that the charges against him, while not provable and probably exaggerated, had an element of truth.

Posted by mhw 2007-02-14 14:04|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-14 14:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Steve White, what you say is true but for some reason I simply don't believe him.

I also think shaking the Koran and pulling the binding back to look for weapons are 'not abusive' and probably warranted.

I also think it's unlikely they'd get females to interogate naked. Would a woman volunteer? Would she be ordered to interogate naked? Even bringing in pros seems impossible in today's day and age.

Even if he's honorable I think he believes his fellow Muslims a little to quickly and is overly willing to take offense.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-02-14 17:55|| 2007-02-14 17:55|| Front Page Top

#7 naked women interrogators? Where they gonna get that kind of money? I had to tap my pension fund...jeebus

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-14 20:53|| 2007-02-14 20:53|| Front Page Top

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