More Media Bias: BBC

Okay, read the first few paragraphs of this BBC article. Then, read what they pushed down to the last few paragraphs. Then, claim that there's no left wing, anti-American media bias abroad. I'll highlight the really important bits.

Brig Gen Hood said those involved had not violated the rules in place at the time.

The inmate who made the original allegation about the Koran being flushed down the toilet had retracted it, he said.

A Pentagon spokesman characterised the incidents as mainly inadvertent handling of the Muslim holy book.

Translation? Okay, there are a few things to be established first.

The rules for Quran handling, published a year or two ago, are extremely strict. Only Muslim clerics are allowed to handle the books, and even then they have to do it in plain site of the detainees while wearing clean white gloves.

Guards and interrogators are not allowed to handle the Quran, at all.

These regulations, while now long-standing, were not in place when the detention camp was established in 2001.

So basically, as I've said all along, this alleged "abuse" of the Quran is almost certainly a load of bullshit. All of this "improper handling" most likely refers to nothing more than guards touching the Quran, and that's it. No toilets, no bodily fluids, nothing. My guess is that the inmates complained about it when it happened, and the new rules were established.

In the words of Officer Barbrady, "Okay, folks, move along! Nothing to see here!"