Billmon: The Friday Flush

Talk Left notes the release (in the now standard late Friday document dump) of a Pentagon report confirming at least five different cases of Quran desecration at the Guantanamo Gulag, including kicking, stepping and pissing (supposedly by accident) on the book -- but not the now notorious Newsweek allegation that it was flushed down a toilet.

There are enough fishy details in the report -- such as the "accidental" urination story -- to suspect that it hides far more than it reveals. We are told, for example, of a prisoner (a hardened Islamic militant, mind you) who ripped the pages out of his own Quran, handed them to his captors and told them "he had given up on being a Muslim."

Right.