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Monday, May 16, 2005
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The Newsweek story, quoting an anonymous source who claimed that U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan tried to pressure a prisoner under interrogation, by "flushing a Koran down the toilet", simply doesn't pass the "sniff test". First, the Koran is a thick book, most likely hardbound. How does one flush it down the toilet? Second, why would one expect that to cause a prisoner to cave? If anything, I'd think it would have the opposite effect.
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