This dispatch from Iran is midly amusing:

Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi criticised police interrogators for extracting confessions.

"Sometimes they do some things like put a bag over the head, which resembles what the Americans do to terrorists in Abu Ghraib," he said.

He said such mistreatment was against the constitution, Islam and international legal principles.

Who knew America's abuses would lead human rights proponents to tap into anti-American feelings?