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Further allegations that US interrogators at Guantánamo Bay flushed copies of the Qur’an down a toilet emerged yesterday, a week after the White House denounced reports of the incidents. Declassified FBI records showed that as early as April 2002 detainees at the US prison in Cuba had denounced the treatment of the Qur’an by guards. “Their behaviour is bad,” one detainee is quoted as saying in July 2002. “About five months ago the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Qur’an in the toilet.”Full Story