ACLU: Gitmo inmates told of Quran desecration in 2002, documents reveal

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The following is a release issued to RAW STORY Wednesday morning by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been relentlessly pursuing documentation surrounding allegations of torture at the Guantanamo Bay prison, and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2005

NEW YORK -- New documents released by the FBI include previously undisclosed interviews in which prisoners at Guantánamo complain that guards have mistreated the Koran, the American Civil Liberties Union said today. In one 2002 summary, an FBI interrogator notes a prisoner’s allegation that guards flushed a Koran down the toilet.

The disclosure comes on the heels of controversy over a Newsweek report saying that government investigators had corroborated an almost identical incident. Newsweek ultimately retracted its story because a confidential government source could not be confirmed.