In yet another theocratic trash update (although in this case, it’s ‘alleged’ theocratic trash), the Guardian is reporting that the mothers of eight Russians held at Guantanamo have begged Washington not to extradite their sons to answer terror charges in Russia, fearing that conditions in their jails are worse than those at Camp Delta. Now, that shouldn’t be taken as the most ringing of endorsements (the Russian prison system is brutal) and the prisoners in question are hardly likely to want to alienate their American jailors at this point, but this quote from one Andrei Bakhitov is still worth repeating:

“Everything is fine with me…They give me books here and I am held in a clean place. The food is tasty. I want for nothing but freedom. Good people are sat around me.”

Quite how Mr. Bakhitov defines “good people” is an entirely different matter.