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75% of Books in Library for Afghan Detainees
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75% of Books in Library for Afghan Detainees Contained 'Extremist' Material
By Patrick Goodenough
A civilian interpreter at a U.S. military detention center in Afghanistan estimated that up to 75 percent of books in a library used by detainees contained unsuitable "extremist" material, according to a U.S. military report into the burning of Qur'ans and other religious literature there last February.
The discovery was made as military personnel searched through the library at the Bagram base's Parwan detention facility, after "multiple intelligence reports indicated that the library books were used as a medium of communication within the detainee population," said the report, a redacted copy of which was released on Monday.
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Books, including copies of the Qur'an that were not recognized as such, were then taken to the facility's burn pit where some were burned before Afghan employees, realizing what was happening, turned off the incinerator and doused the flames.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
http://tiny.cc/u5erjw
By Patrick Goodenough
A civilian interpreter at a U.S. military detention center in Afghanistan estimated that up to 75 percent of books in a library used by detainees contained unsuitable "extremist" material, according to a U.S. military report into the burning of Qur'ans and other religious literature there last February.
The discovery was made as military personnel searched through the library at the Bagram base's Parwan detention facility, after "multiple intelligence reports indicated that the library books were used as a medium of communication within the detainee population," said the report, a redacted copy of which was released on Monday.
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Books, including copies of the Qur'an that were not recognized as such, were then taken to the facility's burn pit where some were burned before Afghan employees, realizing what was happening, turned off the incinerator and doused the flames.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
http://tiny.cc/u5erjw
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