I was just at the Fox News website. One of the story teasers (second story, directly below Falwell's death) read:

Hard Time at Gitmo Detainee cries 'torture,' says he was forced to use unscented deodorant and read newsletter full of 'crap'

If one clicks the link and reads the article, it does mention that the source for the story, a transcript of Majid Khan's military hearing, was "redacted" (in other words, parts that would not be in the best interest of the United States military were deleted). Buried deep into the article we also find this:

Ali Shoukat Khan said his son [Majid Khan] was kidnapped in Pakistan and that there, Americans tortured his son "for eight hours at a time, tying him tightly in stressful positions in a small chair until his hands, feet and mind went numb. ... He was often hooded and had difficulty breathing. They also beat him repeatedly, slapping him in the face, and deprived him of sleep."

"Fair and balanced™" is a joke. And a bad one, at that.

British sailors and marines were blindfolded and kept in isolation from each other during most of their 13-day detention in Iran, members of the naval crew said Friday in their first public comments since being released. Six of the 15 captured crew held a news conference at Royal Marine Base Chivenor a day after they arrived back in Britain. "The pressures we were subjected to were quite diverse. It was mainly psychological and emotional," said Lieut. Felix Carman. "We were blindfolded at all times and kept in isolation from each other." ... Carman said when they first arrived at the Tehran prison, they were blindfolded and ordered to stand against a wall with their hands bound as "people were cocking weapons in the background." That experience was "an extremely nerve-racking occasion," said Carman. "There were lots of tactics like that that were employed." At one point, the lone female sailor, Faye Turney, was told the other 14 sailors and marines had been sent back to Britain and that she was left alone, they said. full article

The British sailors were treated badly in Iranian hands. But, they are lucky the weren't captured by the Bush regime and sent to Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib. The ordeal these sailors endured was nothing compared to what the Bush administration has been promoting as standards of prisoner treatment and interrogation.

This sore of psychological and emotional abuse of prisoners is not acceptable, but Bush's long term unapologetic abuse of prisoners have made it virtually impossible for any United States ally to effectively speak out against this kind of mistreatment, and that goes doubly for the Bush's closest friend and enabler: Tony Blair.

Newsweek withdrew their article on Quran desecration. I find it likely however, that the Quran desecrations as well as many other abuses reported by ex-prisoners at Guantanamo are true. The reports of ex-prisoners detailing abuses are many and consistent, which shows a planned and orchestrated system of abuse designed to bring the most distress to those the United States as picked out as "bad guys" with often little or no evidence. And the scores of prisoners who die under mysterious and suspicion circumstance with absolutely not investigation is astounding.

The U.S. government conveniently any claims of prisoner abuse "not credible" that has not been photographed. If the abuses at Abu Ghraib had not been photographed, they would not have even been investigated and would simply of been placed onto the overflowing pile of "not credible". Sometimes photographic evidence isn't even enough, as was the case with the soldier who shot and killed an unarmed wounded Iraqi who had already been taken prisoner in Falluja. This isn't just a problem with the rank and file, it's a problem with the top brass. Rumsfeld, Bush, and Cheney need to be tried on war crimes at the Hague. They need to be brought to justice for the good of the world.