The Country that cried Wolf

When the US would stick claims of terrorism to anyone they don't like, we shout that it's an obvious case of racism. We also shout, however, that the US is taking advantage of the climate of fear (which it is itself behind) to label anyone as a 'terrorist' which would justify them doing whatever they may wish.

They can do this because, well, the American public isn't really the most acute in the world, and the authorities can take advantage of the ambient ignorance to push that forward.

Yet for some reason all this doesn't make me as sick as when it happens in Cairo.
A new report shows that the State security apparatus has made a number of arrests in 2006, claiming they brought down a terrorist network by the name of "al-Taifa al-Mansoura" - "The Victorious sect".

HRW - an organisation I'm not really fond of, but whatever - has published a report (found here) that shows that this whole story was made up.
There was no evidence of anything.
There were mainly third party testimonies - and everyone knows that informants are very likely to tell on a random guy just because they beat them at backgammon or something.
Plus a few testimonies of the arrested - which were taken, of course, under torture.

There was no "Victorious Sect" whatsoever.

I am reading through the HRW report and trying to make up an idea of who the arrested people are - and why they were arrested.
It seems that the common pattern is that they're average blokes, overall religious, who hang out in mosques and prayer locations. And they may have had a couple of theology books in their houses.
That's essentially it.

This is just nauseating. I feel I'm gonna get sick.