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Afghans Allege U.S. Abuse
Two Afghan teenagers have come forward to say that they were abused while being held in a secretive holding center on Bagram Air Base. Issa Mohammed, 17, and Abdul Rashid, who said he is younger than 16, told The Washington Post that U.S. guards in their detention center—which appears to be different from Bagram's main prison, the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, and consistent with other descriptions of a secret "black" prison—beat them, deprived them of sleep, and took photographs of them naked while interrogating them daily. Two detainees died in 2002 after aggressive beatings by U.S. soldiers in the main Bagram prison, where prisoners are held without charge and denied access to lawyers. The Pentagon issued a statement, saying "Department of Defense policy is and always has been to treat detainees humanely."
confused
Its past time that the Department of Defense followed policy.
Plantagenet
What is the Afghan policy? Obama has left everything in limbo for four months while he dithered over his decision.
matthewbenzor
What happened, to the speech of,the U.S. does'nt torture, youg tennagers on top of it...........! its does'nt look good for President Obama,and will he bring those to justice who tortured these young kids..........! what if they got a couple of young teenage americans and tortured them.........! its never going to end what the Bush and Cheney regime started..!
angels81
With little information to go on, I ask one question.. These two teenagers are to be believed why? Do we know why they were being held? Before I believe this report, I'd like to hear more.
Demsdisorder
we need to start killing the people like this that are just playing games. question them torcher them and kill them. remember we don't win wars like this. they need to fear us!!!!!
khepri
So much for winning hearts and minds. Hah.
kscr14
Wait until the Marines get there. I am so sick of this place.
DakLak
S.O.P.
BUT when others do it to U.S. soldiers, Americans scream blue murder.
Every time they abuse a prisoner the U.S. military has less reason to complain when the compliment is returned.
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