Community | June 16, 2008 | 14 comments

Abuse of detainees routine at U.S. bases in Afghanistan

source: http://www.charlotte.com/559/story/671234.html

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KABUL, Afghanistan --American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock. 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. Yet the soldiers responsible have escaped serious punishment. The public outcry in the United States and abroad has focused on detainee abuse at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but sadistic violence first appeared at Bagram, north of Kabul, and at a similar U.S. internment camp at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan...

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14 comments // Abuse of detainees routine at U.S. bases in Afghanistan

  • clayjj05
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      clayjj05 [removed]  

    • tthats not totally true crob and you know it.

      That one kid whos like 19 and been there for 5 years killed a solider with a hand gernade i know this is only one of the many people there.

      Also 20 people who have been released from club gitmo returned to the battle field after leaving

    • 4 years ago
  • crob80227
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      crob80227  

    • That's the big problem is that the majority DIDN'T actually kill any soliders.

      They were turned over for cash payments and then Bush (in his infinite wisdom) decided that none of the people being held would be allowed to a) hear the charges against them or b) be given a chance to refute any of the charges.

      Dirt poor starving Iraqi family hears soliders will give CASH if they turn in terrorists.

      Starving family hands over some guy and claims he's a terrorists.

      That guy sits in GitMo for years being beaten with a baseball bat while soliders scream (in English, mind you) "Where's Osama?"

      Um....I think I may have identified a small flaw in Bush's grand scheme to "git dem terrorists."

      No wonder Bush is shitting his pants that all of this information will get out in the public.

    • 4 years ago
  • Juas
  • clayjj05
  • eli_redsnail
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      eli_redsnail  
    • clayjj05:

      It's fine for you to feel that way, but how should the 500 men who were released from Gitmo without charge feel? If they were killing soldiers, they would have been held. As it is, they now have every reason to distrust us. Their friends and families have every reason to dislike us.

      the repercussions of our wrong actions are echoing louder and louder

    • 4 years ago
  • crob80227
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      crob80227  

    • clayjj05 -- the majority of "terrorists" we have at GitMo and other "secret prisons" were turned over for bounty to US soliders.

      This fantasy people have of US soliders wrestling hardcore Afghani soliders to the ground or storming a Dr. Evil-style Al-Qadi volcano lair is bullshit.

      If we look a lot closer at HOW these guy came into our custody and WHO they actually are (as in ages, alleged crimes, etc) we can see that -- oh shit -- far from being "the worst of the worst" as Rumsfeld claimed these guys are a bunch of nobodys, with no connections to anyone, who have no information and, again, more than half were just turned in for cash to US soliders and the only "evidence" against them is the testimony of neighbors.....who got paid for it.

    • 4 years ago
  • eli_redsnail
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      eli_redsnail  
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    • This reminds me of the Stanford Prison Experiment, which got out of hand so fast. It's not an excuse for the behavior, but if we can predict abuse, shouldn't we be able to prevent it?

    • 4 years ago
  • Sara_Airey
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      Sara_Airey  

    • Yes that's right, anyone who might object- I do not view one single soldier as a hero and never will. I think it's very brave that they can push past their will to survive and do not doubt that many to most believe in our freedom and that is why they fight, but I will never think that's the hero's solution.

    • 4 years ago
  • Sara_Airey
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      Sara_Airey  

    • I can't believe I've been living so long without knowing this. It's not my fault, though, if I didn't hear this in high school. As I've said before, if we can know the details about celebrities' underwear habits, then we should know about our "heroes" torturing human beings.

    • 4 years ago
  • clayjj05
  • Juas
  • Wessagusset_Oracle
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      Wessagusset_Oracle  

    • is that so clayjj05, the next step is our Government torturing people like you, how'd you like that? you'd certainly deserve it.

      that's right, keep abusing people, make more jihadis, suicide bombers, and haters of America, good job government puppets!

    • 4 years ago
  • Not_A_Fox
  • clayjj05
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