"At the behest of the Americans...."

Clive Stafford Smith reports this in today's Guardian:

It pains me, then, to report on the role of the British government in the case of Saad Iqbal Madni, whose legal case Reprieve begins today. Madni was seized in Jakarta on 11 January 2002, and badly beaten. The Americans put him in a coffin, and flew him to Egypt, apparently stopping off in the British colony of Diego Garcia en route. When Madni arrived in Cairo, he was still bleeding through his nose and mouth from his earlier abuse, yet this was soon relegated to a minor complaint. At the behest of the Americans, he spent 92 days being tortured with electric cattle prods, before being rendered to Afghanistan and ultimately to Guantánamo Bay.

Now, if I may, I should like to underscore one sentence of this:

At the behest of the Americans, he spent 92 days being tortured with electric cattle prods, before being rendered to Afghanistan and ultimately to Guantánamo Bay.

Thank you. I knew you would want to savor that sentence, to roll it around on your brain and extract every drop of sadistic goodness from it.

Yes, I am still wearing crankypants today and I want the torture squad that operated out of the Bush White House to pay for this. Dubya, Darth, Condiliar, Rummy, Yoo, Delahunty, Addington, Gonzo, et alii. They should not be allowed outside a cell for the rest of their lives.

--the BB