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Offered him a plane ride even.

I think I have enough now for part II. I'm so pissed off I can barely keep from slapping my neighbor.

Offered him a plane ride even.

Plus had him in custody, and I assume it was protective custody. Daddy sued to get him out.

"Word had spread due to the presence of certain items amongst my stuff that I was Israeli," Mr. Berg wrote. "So I felt a bit like Arlo Guthrie walking into a jail full of mother rapers and father stabbers as an accused litterbug." The American military police, in fact, "were pretty stand-up," he wrote. "They heard the chants of Yehudien, Israelein, and told the I.P. prison staff to put me in my own cell."

Sounds to me like those other prisoners are the usual jihadists and scumbags and aren't the sort of people who should be loose on the streets.

He described the conditions for other prisoners and their treatment, depending sometimes on nationality. The others, he wrote, were behind closed cell doors and had no time outdoors. Some prisoners, considered political or suspected war criminals from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran "had been in custody for 40 days without a single interpreter interrogation, just waiting as they still do today, and the Iraqi guards treat these poor fellows — especially the Hindis among them — as real dogs.'

'Poor fellows' my butt. We're not talking about Iraqis who were rousted out of their homes, here- we're talking about foreigners in a war zone. Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran... al qaeda country. Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Not that I buy into the authenticity of the account...