Now this affront!!!
"Soldier's desecration of Koran sparks swift response; US expresses regret, but calls incident isolated"
BAGHDAD - US commanders moved swiftly to avert a crisis after a soldier deployed in Baghdad was found to have used a copy of the Koran for target practice.
The incident had the potential to inflame Muslim opinion against the US military.... Iraqi police found the desecrated copy of the Muslim holy book on May 11 at a small shooting range near a police station in Radwaniyah, a mostly Sunni district on Baghdad's western outskirts.... The volume was riddled with bullets and had graffiti inside the cover.
Community leaders were outraged and threatened to stop helping the US military fight Al Qaeda in Iraq, said Ayad Jabouri, a tribal leader and member of the country's largest Sunni political party. The US command ordered an immediate investigation.
The military did not release the soldier's name or detail how he would be disciplined, saying that the case was still being adjudicated.... "
