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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (34827)5/23/2005 8:24:32 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
This recent torture report from Afghanistan is not even about POWs and Geneva Convention - here is a taxi driver who died under torture, and he was never believed to be a fighter on anyone's side:

Dilawar had been chained to his cell ceiling by his wrists for four days and his legs pummelled by guards when he was brought to be re-interrogated at 0200 hours about an attack on a US air base, it says.

After the interrogation he was returned to be chained up and died before a doctor came to see him.

The report says most interrogators believed him to be an innocent taxi driver who simply drove past at the time of the air-base attack.

One soldier told investigators that when the prisoner was beaten, "he screamed out Allah, Allah, Allah, and my first reaction was he was crying out to his God".

"It became a running joke and people kept showing up to give him a strike just to hear him scream Allah... It went on over a 24-hour period and I would think that it was over 100 strikes."

news.bbc.co.uk

If true, this points to a far more dangerous trend than "being tough on terrorists to obtain important information" - this sounds like torturing the weak, imprisoned for whatever reason, just for the twisted fun of it.
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