At 1:52 PM -0500 1/31/05, OpinionJournal wrote: >Rule 18 >From London's Daily Telegraph comes a word of warning to those who've been >caught up in the hysteria over "torture" of terrorists: > >*** QUOTE *** > >The men's [British citizens recently released] 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. > >*** END QUOTE ***
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