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To: Neeka who wrote (86173)	3/25/2003 8:19:19 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Interesting the way you wrote this: "beaten to death with blunt instruments"? Actually, I believe it was reported as "suffering from blunt force trauma". Which is why military investigators decided to arrest the interrogators and investigate them on the belief that they beat their prisoners to the extent that they died from injuries. Hawk

To: Neeka who wrote (86173)	3/25/2003 8:30:40 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>> Interesting the way you wrote this: "beaten to death with blunt instruments"? Where are you quoting this passage from? << These are some links. -------------------------- "Two prisoners who died while being held for interrogation at the US military base in Afghanistan had apparently been beaten, according to a military pathologist's report. A criminal investigation is now under way into the deaths which have both been classified as homicides. " The Guardian (UK) - March 7, 2003 worldrevolution.org --------------------------------- The deceased were a 22 year-old Afghan taxi-driver called Dilawar, who died on 10 December 2002 a few days after being taken into custody, and Mullah Habibullah, said to be aged around 30, who died on 3 December. According to a recent report in the New York Times, the autopsy in Dilawar’s case states that he died as a result of “blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease”. Military sources are quoted as saying that Mullah Habibullah died of pulmonary embolism or a blood clot in the lung; blunt force injuries were reportedly noted in his case also. The US military is reported to have begun a criminal investigation into the deaths. cgil.it ------------------ --------------------- theage.com.au Afghans died after beatings at US base ----------- On December 26 of last year, the Washington Post published a front-page story detailing allegations of torture and inhumane treatment involving thousands of suspects apprehended since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Al Qaeda captives held at overseas CIA interrogation centers, which are completely off-limits to reporters, lawyers and outside agencies, are routinely "softened up"--that is, beaten--by US Army Special Forces before interrogation, as well as thrown against walls, hooded, deprived of sleep, bombarded with light and bound in painful positions with duct tape. "If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job," one official said to the Post of these methods, which at the very least constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and may rise to the level of "severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental," the benchmark of torture. thenation.com