Via the Curmudgeonly Clerk, I found Mr. Bowden's long and interesting article on interrogation techniques in The Atlantic, with this good if cynical quotation:

"There's an old Arab saying," Koubi says. "'Let one hundred mothers cry, but not my mother--but better my mother than me.'"

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