U.S. Soldiers Cleaned Their Boots With Qur'an Pages
10-22-05

A Bahraini detainee held at the US Detention Center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba revealed more sexual abuses by the American soldiers there and confirmed Qur'an desecration.

Jumah Al-Dossary, one of six Bahraini detainees the US holds in Guantanamo Prison said he was subject of sexual abuse. He also confirmed desecration of the Qur'an, Islam's Holy Book, by US soldiers in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported.

Al-Dossary, 30 said he witnessed US soldiers at Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan cleaning their boots with pages they had ripped from the Holy Qur'an.

According to the recently declassified documents issued by his lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, Al-Dossary, the Bahraini detainee was beaten and stomped on by eight US soldiers, as he was recovering from an earlier stomach operation.

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