A U.S. citizen's family has made a
credible allegation that the United States urged the Saudi Arabian Government to detain the U.S. citizen without charges and torture him, since they could not. They have (according to someone from the U.S. attorney's office), among other things, pulled off his finger nails to try to get him to confession to terrorist activities in Virginia. The Bush administration takes the position that even if it did so, that this was legal.