Should civilized nations use "Enhanced Interrogation" techni

[kandrathe]

Drummed up charges or not, meanwhile she has been released and returned home unmolested. Luckily for her, the Iranians ('civilized' or not) decided not to wring a confession out of her, nor information about secret plots against their country.

She was lucky, I guess, and maybe being a political hot potato she was treated differently. Have you heard of the book, "The New Islamist Man: The Political Prison in Iran by Chahla Chafiq?

Excerpt; <blockquote>"A woman's rape is frequently the last act that precedes her execution. This is explained by the rule in Iranian political prisons that the sentence of execution cannot be carried out if the woman is a virgin. Since there is a theological belief that if a woman dies a virgin she will go to heaven, the politically active virgin is forced to "marry" before her execution and thus to insure she will go to hell. She is forced to "marry" the hangman who will carry out her execution."</blockquote>

"American civil right activist Glenn Greenwald, while stating his belief that Saberi's conviction was improper, has pointed to the hypocrisy of American reporters who rallied to Saberi's defense but have been silent about the plight of journalists like Sami Al-Haj, an Al Jazeera cameraman who was held for six years in Guantanamo by the U.S. government. Al-Haj’s imprisonment received nearly no news coverage."

You mean the "camera man" who was traveling with $220,000 in cash?