Interesting Perspective on Torture Claims
From the opinion page of London's Daily Telegraph:

The men's claim that they were tortured at Guantanamo should also be set in the context of the al-Qa'eda training manual discovered during a raid in Manchester a couple of years ago. Lesson 18 of that manual, whose authenticity has not been questioned, emphatically states, under the heading "Prison and Detention Centres", that, when arrested, members of al-Qa'eda "must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security investigators. [They must] complain to the court of mistreatment while in prison". That is not, of course, proof that the Britons were not tortured in Guantanamo. But it ought to encourage some doubts about uncritically accepting that they were – which seems to be the attitude adopted by most of the media.

Hmmm, so the terrorists we have imprisoned might acutally lie to make Americans look bad? Nah, can't be.

I don't doubt that there was some mistreatment of prisoners, but I think this statement in an al-Qa'eda training manual (which I had never heard about until now, by the way. Thanks mainstream media.) should be taken into account when evaluating claims made by prisoners. Let's give our soldiers the benefit of the doubt, or at the very least, trust them more than we trust so-called "insurgents."

The whole article is here.

Hat tip: James Taranto
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