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A mini-blogstorm is developing over this one.
We’ve all heard allegations of abuse of prisoners at Quantanamo. The Washington Times has found that making false allegations of such abuse is part of al Qaeda training:
An al Qaeda handbook preaches to operatives to level charges of torture once captured, a training regime that administration officials say explains some of the charges of abuse at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
...In a raid on an al Qaeda cell in Manchester, British authorities seized al Qaeda’s most extensive manual for how to wage war.
A directive lists one mission as “spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy.”
If captured, the manual states, “At the beginning of the trial … the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison.”
From In the Bullpen:
Perhaps the most interesting piece of information to come out of this is whether or not the world media will understand that they are in fact aiding and abetting the enemy by reproducing allegations of torture and not fully explaining they are in fact allegations and not the truth. While there have been some instances of abuse, they are few and far between, but that is not how the media has wanted to portray it.
From The Jawa Report:
This goes along way in explaining a lot of allegations. Especially from the likes of al Qaeda linked terror suspect Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who you will recall accused the US of torturing him.
From Say Anything:
Meanwhile, most in the media and on the anti-war left continue to swallow every unfounded accusation of abuse the detainees at Guantanamo Bay and other places care to aim in their direction.
