Pentagon Admits Koran Abuse waits Til Friday so it Won't get any Press

The Pentagon made sure this would be a non story by waiting until Friday evening to put out the report that the Koran had been abused at Guantanamo Bay. Unbelievable, after cowing Newsweek into retracting the story:

The Pentagon on Friday released new details about mishandling of the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, confirming that a soldier deliberately kicked the Muslim holy book and that an interrogator stepped on a Quran and was later fired for “a pattern of unacceptable behavior.”

In other confirmed incidents, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard’s urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; and in a confirmed but ambiguous case a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.The findings, released after

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