Look how the New York Times correspondent strives to deny that FSA gangs engage in torture

"“For torture,” Shaza, the Information Ministry official, said as she pointed to meat hooks and electric wires dangling from the walls. It was hard to know. Perhaps the meat hooks had been used to hang intravenous bags, or perhaps for nothing..."  Yeah, I am sure that they were for "nothing".  That was a very smart guess on your part. Where do they get their correspondents really?