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But [General Hood] also had to deal with the fallout of a report in Newsweek asserting that a military inquiry was expected to find that a Koran had been flushed down a toilet at the detention center. The magazine later retracted the article, but the military inquiry concluded that a soldier had inadvertently splashed urine on a Koran.

Reported in the Times

So, uh, yeah, uh, hm. I must not have been following this story very closely when it hit, because I cannot seem to recall previously seeing that last detail. Lemme aks you: How do you "inadvertently" splash urine on a Koran? Was that soldier catching up on his comparative religion in the john? I've got to tell you that--and maybe I'm unusual here--if I am reading on the can, then I am on the can, i.e. taking a shit, sitting down, and unlikely to splash urine even if I try. Is this really how America sought to ameliorate the cultural fallout from the original accusation? Oh, don't worry Muslims, they didn't flush it, they just pissed on it.