When someone in Guantanamo confesses to buying surface-to-air missiles in Tipton, he is the latest in a long line of precedent whose early points are witches confessing, under torture, to eating the flesh of unbaptised babies and kissing the devil's anus. One does not want to force the issue, but it is hard, in the light of recent events, not to feel a frisson when we read of how torture was used to obtain the answers required by the powers that be. As it turns out, there is quite a lot of detail here, but not only is it not dry, these details have quite a startling bearing on what's going on now.
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