Red Cross told U.S. of alleged acts against Koran
GENEVA (AP) - The international Red Cross told U.S. authorities about
allegations that U.S. personnel at the Guantánamo Bay detention center
showed disrespect to Islam's holy book, the Koran, a spokesman said
Thursday...
Red Cross delegates, who have visited Guantánamo regularly since the
arrival in January 2002 of the first of about 600 detainees, did not
personally witness any instances of disrespect toward the Koran.
Instead, Schorno said, they received an unspecified number of reports
from detainees that this had occurred.
Schorno told the Chicago Tribune, which first reported the story
Thursday, that the delegates gathered and corroborated enough similar,
independent reports from detainees to raise the issue on numerous
occasions with Guantánamo commanders and Pentagon officials. ...
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