5/20/08 12:00
THE US military has been forced to apologise after one of its soldiers in Iraq used a copy of the Koran for target practice.
The Muslim holy book was found peppered with 14 bullet holes and with offensive scrawls inside at a shooting range near Baghdad.
The military yesterday confirmed that a soldier had been disciplined and withdrawn from duty after Iraqi police found the Koran at the firing range on May 11.
Commanders were met by hundreds of protesting Sunni tribesmen when they went to deliver an apology to local leaders west of Baghdad.
Maj-Gen Jeffery Hammond told the crowd: "I am a man of honour, I am a man of character. You have my word this will never happen again."
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,2372
5600-663,00.html
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