Would you mind repeating that question...?

At a news conference last month, President Bush was asked what Uzbekistan COULD do in interrogating a suspect that the United States could not. [bold and caps mine]

"We seek assurances that nobody will be tortured when we render a person back to their home country," Mr. Bush said.

here's what uzbekistan CAN do in interrogating a suspect...

(read on - not pretty)

U.S. Recruits a Rough Ally to Be a Jailer

In the summer of 2002, Amnesty International reported, Fatima Mukhadirova, a 62-year-old Tashkent shopkeeper, was sentenced to six years of hard labor after denouncing the government for the death of her son, Muzafar Avozov, in a Tashkent prison.

An independent examination of photographs of the body, conducted by the University of Glasgow, showed that Mr. Avozov died after being immersed in boiling water, human rights groups reported. The examination said his head had been beaten and his fingernails removed.

[...]

General Myers said the United States had "benefited greatly from our partnership and strategic relationship with Uzbekistan."

ya gotta love them benefits...

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