Monday, June 16, 2008
And the beat goes on...
From Tom Lasseter, today is the second installment in the McClatchy investigation into the Bushevik efforts to Saddamize US overseas prison facilities.
There are 3 more installments to this dreadful picture, stay tuned.
American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock.And were these men the "worst of the worst" or were they merely people in the wrong place at the wrong time, like Nazar Chaman Gul.
The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in pain. U.S. troops shackled and dragged other detainees to small isolation rooms, then hung them by their wrists from chains dangling from the wire mesh ceiling.
Former guards and detainees whom McClatchy interviewed said Bagram was a center of systematic brutality for at least 20 months, starting in late 2001.
According to Afghan officials and a review of his case, Gul wasn't a member of al Qaida or of the extremist Taliban regime that ran Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. At the time he was detained, he was working as a fuel depot guard for the U.S.-backed Afghan government.Some few that went through Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo may be bad guys but most were literally sweepings in the aftermath of battle. It certainly would not take a trained interrogator long to discover this. And even if they were all the WOTW, torture is a worthless tecnique, you catch more flies with honey that with vinegar. Our Dear Leader has told us that it was a handful of bad soldiers who were responsible for this. Funny how we found a handful of them at all the major detention facilities.
When U.S. soldiers raided the house he was visiting, acting on a tip from a tribal rival who was seeking revenge against another man, they apparently confused Gul with a militant with a similar name — who was also imprisoned at Guantanamo, according to an Afghan intelligence official and Gul's American lawyer.
There are 3 more installments to this dreadful picture, stay tuned.
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