From an AP story on a book manuscript being written by Sgt. Erik R. Saar, who worked as an Arabic translator at the US camp in Guantanamo Bay. Saar's book will report that female "civilian contractors" were used to sexually molest detainees, including one case in which a female interrogator rubbed her breasts on a detainee's back. Muslim men, the AP adds, consider it taboo to have close contact with women who aren't their wives. Here's Saar:
"Even though it is not the case." But if it sounds like a religious war, and tortures like a religious war, well, then, I'm not sure we have a lot to complain about when people read it as one.
(This post sponsored by the "mutuality of interpretation.")
(p.s. I'm kind of appalled that Maureen Dowd's column depends on the same quote I do. I wrote this Friday, I swear!)
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