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To: mistermj who wrote (80291)	3/7/2003 8:21:32 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul – reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives. If the US government uncovered this through it's own investigations, that is better than if their hand was forced, which an article two days ago suggested. The article in this weeks' New Yorker on the US government's treatment of John Walker Lindh underlines the problems here.

To: mistermj who wrote (80291)	3/7/2003 8:56:10 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<died from blunt force injuries to lower extremities> This is the kind of thing that becomes routine, in any guerrilla war. Both sides will do it. War is hell, most especially guerrilla war. Apparently, the captives in Cuba, and anyone else we capture overseas, have life sentences. They will not be repatriated in a prisoner-exchange at the end of the war, because the war is permanent. They will not be treated as criminals, they won't get lawyers or trials or sentencing. As this war goes on, their number, now hundreds, will become thousands, then tens of thousands. I wonder where we'll keep them all.