Community | May 15, 2010 | 10 comments

Obama's Afghanistan "black" jail confirmed by IRCC

source: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0514/abuses-black-jail-afghanistan-confirmed/

Image
SleepDirt
Earlier this week, the International Red Cross confirmed the existence of a secret "Black Jail" within the Bagram prison complex in Afghanistan, where high-value detainees were held and allegedly abused. Since then, additional details have continued to emerge.

The New York Times reported last November that former prisoners and human rights researchers had described how prisoners were held at the facility for weeks at a time without being allowed outside contact. The BBC also obtained accounts from prisoners who said they had been subjected to isolation, sleep deprivation, and cold.

The American vice admiral in charge of detainees, however, continued to deny both the existence of a separate facility and the allegations of abuse until the International Red Cross confirmed the claims.

Now The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder has been able to paint a clearer picture of the facility. His sources tell him that it is run by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC), whose operatives perform the interrogations on behalf of a subunit of the"elite counter-terrorism brigade" known as Task Force 714.

Task Force 714 was formerly commanded by General Stanley McChrystal, who now leads US forces in Afghanistan. According to Ambinder, DCHC is a "relatively new organization," which absorbed many of the previous functions and staff of the Counterintelligence Field Activity after CIFA was accused of spying on American political groups and was implicated in the Duke Cunningham scandal.

Continued...
  1. groups:
    Community,   Politics,   Civil Liberties
  2. tags:
  3.     
    |

10 comments // Obama's Afghanistan "black" jail confirmed by IRCC

  • Incredulous
    • +1
      Incredulous  

    • I miss the campaign days with Obama, when he wasn't afraid to face the issues and tell the American people, for better or for worse, what was actually going on. His silence on these matters is deeply disturbing, and visiting the troops isn't going to ease the unrest of what the hell we are really doing in Afghanistan....time for some fireside chats Obama, people want and need to know why these things are happening. We are not children, we can take it.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  

    • i dont think ever that thier has been a war between nations that didnt include interogation facilities.
      and being as international law is an idea more than actually existing im sure these facilities are used as toture dens.
      this is part of war
      no war no abu grahib
      no war no gitmo
      we vote for war we get it and all of its accesories

    • 2 years ago
  • Incredulous
  • freecrack
    • +1
      freecrack  
    • Incredulous:

      our house or representatives had alot of discussion with zero people protesting against it.
      it would be nice if wars happened on a voting schedule, but the responsability of free speech is to use it.

    • 2 years ago
  • KSirys
  • freecrack
  • CarlosBobthe3rd
    • +3
      CarlosBobthe3rd  

    • I didn't like when this happened under bush but since I voted for obama I will support him blindly no matter what he does. Besides we have more important things to worry about, like Sarah Palin

    • 2 years ago
  • Incredulous
  • treewolf39
  • artemis6
more from Community:
from the community

top videos