Sacramento Bee logo Sacramento Bee 17 months ago

Brutality toward detainees started at U.S. bases in Afghanistan

Second of four parts 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. Full Article at Sacramento Bee

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  1. I was punched and kicked at Bagram. At Bagram, when they took a man to interrogation at night, the next morning we would see him brought out on a stretcher looking almost dead
    SOURCE: Sacramento Bee 17 months ago
  2. I saw the soldiers, many times, drop the Quran on the floor, in the garbage and in buckets of feces
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  3. I was punched and kicked at Bagram. . . . At Bagram, when they took a man to interrogation at night, the next morning we would see him brought out on a stretcher looking almost dead
    SOURCE: Miami Herald 17 months ago
  4. Really, nobody was in charge . . . the leadership did nothing to help us. If we had any questions, it was pretty much 'figure it out on your own,' ... When you asked about protocol they said it's a work in progress.
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