 He could not do that. And I wanted to read a couple of paragraphs from the book that describe a little bit of the suffering that he went through when he was a prisoner, the torture that they did to him, and the reason why he was able to endure such torture. He writes, With terror I saw the second guard reappear. In his hands he had a long piece of electrical cable, at least two or three centimeters, approximately one inch thick.