>>>Any particular reason... who is being held by Pakistan officials?

...but, I don't think the article said that the doctor was held by Pakistan. Unless I am reading it wrong (possible), the article implied that the doctor might be held in Guantanamo. I believe that Bowser "went off" on that implication.

I don't think that he was obliged to not "fail to mention" all the other facts in the article as you suggest he should. I don't think they were material to his point.

I think his point was that if we are holding this guy, and if their Interior Ministry (whatever that is) had to respond that they did not know his whereabouts, then it's not a nice thing that the US is doing to our friends, the Pakis. Might be true. In any case, it's not an unreasonable position to hold. Wiser folks than any on this board have held much weirder positions than this.

[If you stick up for poor Ed, somebody should stick up for poor Bowser, once in a while.]