Flag "torture": the many meanings of a single word

From an article describing the alleged “torture” of prisoners at Guantanamo….

A Hand Full of Stars
Religious humiliation was also routine, with one agent reporting a case in which a prisoner was wrapped in an Israeli flag.

Such whining is beneath contempt. The flag of the only democracy in the middle east is torture? I think somehow the language centers of their brains have become severely damaged, and dictionary denotations mean nothing to them.