{"id":188,"date":"2008-05-17T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:35:51","slug":"soldier-shoots-koran-general-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/soldier-shoots-koran-general-apologizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier Shoots Koran, General Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/17\/iraq.quran\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0(with more commentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/17\/btsc.ware\/index.html\">here<\/a>), a US Army Major General formally apologized to an Iraqi village after a soldier used a Koran for target practice.\u00a0 The General called the soldier&#8217;s actions &#8220;criminal behavior,&#8221; and\u00a0a military official &#8220;kissed a Koran&#8221; and provided it as a gift to the village.<\/p>\n<p>An Iraqi party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/19\/iraq.quran\/index.html\">claimed<\/a> that the apology and reassignment were insufficient and demanded &#8220;the severest punishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>:<\/font> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/20\/bush.quran\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, President Bush has personally apologized to the Iraqi Prime Minister.\u00a0 <em>CNN has updated the article in response to the White House assertion that there was no &#8220;apology.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN\u00a0(with more commentary here), a US Army Major General formally apologized to an Iraqi village after a soldier used a Koran for target practice.\u00a0 The General called the soldier&#8217;s actions &#8220;criminal behavior,&#8221; and\u00a0a military official &#8220;kissed a Koran&#8221; and provided it as a gift to the village. An Iraqi party claimed that the apology and reassignment were insufficient [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[52,44,2,10],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}