US Soldier Used Quran For Target Practice

CNN:

A soldier used the Quran -- Islam's holy book -- for target practice, forcing the chief U.S. commander in Baghdad to issue a formal apology on Saturday.

Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, apologized to leaders in Radhwaniya, in the western outskirts of Baghdad, for the staff sergeant who was a sniper section leader assigned to the headquarters of the 64th Armored Regiment. He also read a letter of apology by the shooter.

It was the first time the incident -- which tested the relationship between U.S.-backed Sunni militiamen and the military -- was made public since it was discovered May 11.

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Comments

[Driver125]

01:36 PM on 05/20/2008

For punishment they sent the soldier BACK to the United States. How is that punishment, exactly....? Too funny...

[MissingAmerica]

05:18 PM on 05/18/2008

Every religion serves a purpose, just as every religious has it's sane and it's totally extreme. This is about respect, and what this man did was pathetic. The Quran is to the Muslims what the Bible is to Christians, and I can't imagine them shooting holes in the Bible.

[GZLives]

07:17 PM on 05/18/2008

But they can blow up Mosques with people inside right? They can blow up funerals, wedding parties, they can in fact basically do whatever they want and Leftist useful idiots will defend it.

Its absolutely insane.

If they want respect then they ought to show a little for others.

[PublicusOrator]

04:55 PM on 05/18/2008

Of course there isn't aqny problem or objection to Bill Mahr's anti religion comments, artists have every right to exhibit artistic creations such elephant dung overlayed an image of the Virgin Mary, the cross in a jar of urine, so on and so on. Please, give us a break.

[OlskoolDem]

04:31 PM on 05/18/2008

Bla Bla Bla so what , maybe next time the soldier could wrap that Quran in a Bible and kill two birds with one clip. They should give that kid a pack of smokes and a bottle of Jack for the effort.

[newshawk14]

05:32 PM on 05/18/2008

One incredibly stupid comment, I don't have much use for any religion, but desecrating their
symbols, doesn't speak well to your status as an aware human being.

[newshawk14]

06:01 PM on 05/18/2008

Forgot to mention, that if his commanding officers have any brains (always a
questionable hypothesis) he should be facing a court marshal, for what he has
done. I would, very much like to hear the opinion of military vets on this.

[radmul]

03:53 PM on 05/18/2008

This soldier showed the superstitious the respect they deserve.

[shag11]

03:50 PM on 05/18/2008

That's to be expected. Ya got so-called christians running the military. They think their shit is the only way to salvation, and any other religion is farcical.

[ritzywife]

03:45 PM on 05/18/2008

This is about one of the craziest things I have ever heard. You are telling me that it is ok to go into another country and shoot and shed blood of the people whose ideals and beliefs come from this book, but it's not ok to shoot the "book".....i can almost bet that if the roles were reversed and a muslim was caught shooting at the christian's Holy Bible we would say it's their religious "right" or freedom to do as they please. Come on, that book is the reason we don't get along, but you will never hear any of our leaders say that. And for us to play up to them for what the soldier did is a disgrace......But, at least it got him back home where all of our soldiers belong ,in my opinion. And this is from someone who has a husband over there now......

[Ramirez]

12:04 PM on 05/18/2008

Shooting the Quran? That's nothing. Check out THIS.
Palestinian claims Israelis tortured him with belly dancer:
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"Twenty-one-year-old Ramallah resident Sultan Abdullah Sulieman was recently released from the Ofer Prison, officially known as Incarceration Facility 386. In interviews with lawyers from the Palestinian Prisoners Society, he said that he spent forty days in solitary confinement in the facility.

Sulieman said that during one interrogation session, Israeli soldiers brought an “Iraqi girl” called “Nora” into the room. “Nora” danced “seductively” in front of Suleiman, moving close to him before moving away, he said.

Sultan Sulaiman Abdullah from Ramallah that the Ofer prison warders in the new style used in the investigation, where the girl who came and entered the prisoner during interrogation, sitting semi-naked in front of the captive and begin issuing the voices and gestures for tempting him and was approaching the degree of contact with her body and then his body."
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Read more here, plus video:
http://patdollard.com/2008/05/palestinian-detainee-claims-israel-tortured-him-with-belly-dancers-with-video/


The horror....

[RedStateBlues]

10:41 AM on 05/18/2008

I certainly don't condone this guy's actions, but he may have been smarter than we think.

"A military investigation found the shooter guilty and relieved him of duty; he will be redeployed to the United States for reassignment away from the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, a U.S. official said."

They're sending him home!

[rollingdivision]

10:30 AM on 05/18/2008

Stupid, you don't hand propaganda victories to your enemies.

[Proud2BIndy]

11:13 AM on 05/18/2008

But that's the Republican reason for being, plain and simple, and you just know this guy's a HUGE Bush boot licker.

[helonias]

10:11 AM on 05/18/2008

Just a sample of the many other bad things to happen.

[Proud2BIndy]

09:41 AM on 05/18/2008

I say drop him in Falujah with nothing but his wits and let the natives sort it out.

This guy is like those girls that are always doing things to get their boyfriends' asses kicked, aka a liability. But that's what we get when we let complete low-lifes represent us on the world stage.

[ThirdSection]

09:49 AM on 05/18/2008

That's what we get when we let complete low-lifes run our country.

[Proud2BIndy]

09:59 AM on 05/18/2008

Amen.

[NorthernCross]

09:18 AM on 05/18/2008

Bad judgment. If that soldier wanted to shoot up a Quran, then he should have waited until his tour was over, or even better, until he gets the honorable discharge. That said, let the Muslims who are mad about this first do something to end cultural and institutional dhimmitude in their countries before they whine to us about it.

[cdnnewsjunky]

10:00 AM on 05/18/2008

You illegally invade their country, and now you want to whine about their culture. If you don't like the culture you should have stayed at home.

[wedgie]

08:00 AM on 05/18/2008

Actually, I think we should line up all the religious books in a row and put a 30.06 right down the middle. Then piss on em.

Religious documents are killing us.

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[ThirdSection]

08:10 AM on 05/18/2008

Amen and Hallelujah, brother!

[eddietru]

09:13 AM on 05/18/2008

We cannot go on destroying other peoples and cultures in order to "save them." We cannot go on exploiting our planet because "God gave it to us to do with as we wish". And unless we, as a culture and civilization, really come to grips with the fact that we have believed a pack of lies for over 2000 years, we aren't going to get out of the mess we are in.

[marthamay]

07:30 AM on 05/18/2008

Here's another Huffy post dis on an AMERICAN SOLDIER! Get a life who cares?

[ThirdSection]

08:11 AM on 05/18/2008

Millions of pissed-off Muslims?

[HumeSkeptic]

08:58 AM on 05/18/2008

"Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, apologized to leaders in Radhwaniya, ..."
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And it's not just Huffy dissing an "AMERICAN SOLDIER", it's also that traitor called Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond.