Source: The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1493672,00.html
On May 27, 2005 The Guardian reported, "The Pentagon admitted last night that it had uncovered five instances of mishandling of the Qur'an at Guantánamo Bay, but it claimed that there was 'no credible evidence' that a copy had ever been flushed down the toilet. Brigadier General Jay Hood, commander of the US prison in Cuba, said an investigation had uncovered 13 separate allegations that the Qur'an had been mishandled, 10 by prison guards and three by interrogators. Presenting what the Pentagon described as an interim report into alleged mistreatment of the holy book at the base, he said that in only five of those 13 instances - four of which were by guards and one by an interrogator - was there anything that could be broadly defined as mishandling of a Qur'an...Brig Gen Hood said that in three of the five instances the mishandling appeared to have been deliberate, but refused to elaborate other than to say that none of the incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures."