clash of civilization(s)?

* freedom

"Despite having been held at gunpoint, threatened with knives and held captive for nine days, two Japanese men who were kidnapped in Iraq expressed sympathy for their captors yesterday, calling them soldiers and resistance fighters."


* boredom

"[Detainees] at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were threatened with rape, beaten with a broom handle and a chair, and had the phosphoric liquid from chemical lights poured over them. One detainee is said to have been sodomised with an object, while military working dogs were used to intimidate detainees."