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Pentagon reviews G-Bay reports

WASHINGTON: The US Defense Department is reviewing allegations that interrogators at a military detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, desecrated a copy of the Holy Quran by stuffing it in a toilet to rattle Muslim prisoners, a Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday.

“The allegation is being reviewed,” said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman.

Whitman, however, defended the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison where more than 500 men are being held as suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda combatants. “We have given great consideration to the detainees and their religious practices,” he said. “We’ve given them culturally appropriate meals, we give them opportunities to worship, we give them appropriate religious materials like the Holy Quran.” But he added: “This is a serious allegation and it’s going to be looked into.” Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita said the Southern Command’s investigation was currently under review by the Justice Department since it involved FBI officials and a separate inquiry by the bureau. “I think we’re probably several weeks away from being able to say that the commander has made his final assessments there,” he said. afp

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