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The absence of evidence is not evidence. He may very well have indicated in the next sentence something that revealed the location of the 'CIA jails', or more likely, the techniques used to get him to talk. Whether those (hypothetical) techniques would be considered torture is even more guesswork. But whatever they were (if that's what he said), it would be foolish to let the other side know how to prepare.

Furthermore, the complaints about beach balls and such would not be needed if he had something serious to say.

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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.

A few years ago, I mangled a finger-tip with my table saw, and had to have it amputated. I was in the hospital for about 24 hours, and never once in that time did I get around to mentioning to anyone that I broke a nail on the other hand.

I have to figure that if unscented soap and underinflated volleyballs are high enough on his list to have made it into his statement, the stuff at the top of the list probably isn't all that much more earth-shattering. I can tell you from experience that you don't take time out to complain about breaking a nail when you have part of your hand being taken off.

This sounds like a typical Muslim laundry-list of greivances. I've studied with and worked with Muslims for better than half of my life, and in that time I've worked closely with a couple of dozen; while that certainly isn't a "statistically valid sampling set", I'm a little more familiar with Muslim behavior than most Americans, and I can tell you that this kind of complaining is SOP. I wouldn't call it whining, but they have a cultural tendancy to take every minor slight or annoyance, particularly if it's coming from or controlled by a non-Muslim, and blow it way out of proportion.

I think it's partly a negotiation tactic, partly a cultural reaction to non-Muslims, and partly a side-effect of Islam, but I've rarely known a Muslim who wasn't constantly mad and complaining about SOMETHING, and it's always the fault of a non-Muslim. I used to think it was just an Arab thing, but we have a large East African population here in Minneapolis, and the Somalis are even worse (it got to the point where the Eritreans refused to play soccer with the Somalis, because they end up arguing every call).

Personally, I've learned to adopt a 1/10th rule - I automatically attenuate every complaint from a Muslim by a factor of 10, and I can usually get close to the truth. Too bad our media hasn't figured this out yet, because the combination of a culture that turns every minor annoyance into a mortal insult and a news media desperately searching for any evidence of racism is a really, REALLY unfortunate combination.