Of course, claiming torture is a tactic right out of the Al-Qaeda playbook. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali update from AP, with thanks to DC Watson:
ALEXANDRIA -- An FBI doctor testified Monday that he found no significant scars on the back of a U.S. citizen who claims that Saudi police whipped and tortured him into falsely confessing he joined al-Qaida and plotted to assassinate President Bush....Prosecutors allege Ahmed Omar Abu Ali joined al-Qaida in 2002 while enrolled in a college in Saudi Arabia. They say he confessed to plotting Bush's assassination along with other terrorist acts, including plans to establish an al-Qaida cell in the United States and to rescue of Muslim prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay....
His attorneys want the confession thrown out. They argue that the 24-year-old falsely confessed after being tortured and whipped by the Saudis, and they say U.S. authorities were complicit in the torture.
Prosecutors deny Abu Ali, of Falls Church, was mistreated.
I hope they didn't resort to showing him pictures of naked women. How humiliating!
Maybe he had to wear a panty-hat.