Just when it looked like there couldn't be anything worse in the middle east, along comes this report (courtesy of Reuters News)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-05-13T165527Z_01_N13352
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Just when it seems like we just can't do enough to piss off 1 billion Muslims, add this to the Abu Ghraib photos. The short version is that interrogators at Gitmo were throwing the Koran in the toilet -- and flushing. One has to wonder what Dobson, Frist and Bush would think if the Saudis were flushing the King James Bible.
Even our buddies in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are pretty PO'd at this nonsense. With Pakistan calling for a probe and SA expressing "deep indignation". Of course the on the street reactions are a bit less reserved. This can't be good for the men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan (where things are already going pretty bad).
At the least, the military should engage an immediate investigation and try to demonstrate some real remorse about this, but I'm betting that this will be written off as another example of a "few bad junior enlisted".