LONDON: Several Britons who had been held at US military prisons in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba alleged Monday that they had seen their US guards desecrate the holy Quran. Former prisoners Moazzam Begg, Feroz Abbasi and Jamal al-Harith alleged on the Islamic human rights website Cageprisoners.com that the Muslim holy book had been profaned.
On the website, Begg said “as cells were entered and searched I witnessed an occasion when a (copy of the holy Quran) was snatched from a captive’s hands and thrown to the ground”.
Begg told Britain’s Press Association “If (Newsweek) are retracting it, it is really silly. So many people are saying exactly the same thing.” He added: “I swear by Allah! I witnessed this clearly, not 10 metres away from me, with my own eyes and ears.”
