Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates’ Deaths
The New York Times reports on the details of two Afghan prisoners tortured to death by American jailers at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan. A 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar was chained by his wrists to the top of his cell for much of a four-day period, and was repeatedly beaten by guards for several days. “Most of the interrogators,” reports the Times, “had believed Mr. Dilawar was an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time.”
Another prisoner named Habibullah was also chained to the ceiling of his cell as well as being repeatedly beaten for “noncompliance.” It isn’t clear that Habibullah had any idea what his captors were ordering him to do, since the MPs were assigned no interpreter of their own. Specialist Brian E. Cammack beat Habibullah when Habibullah was both chained and either unconscious or already dead. “It looked like he had been dead for a while, and it looked like nobody cared,” said the medic, Staff Sgt. Rodney D. Glass, who later examined Habibullah.
This would be a good time to look up the word systematic in a dictionary, and then wave the Times’ article in front of your own member of Congress. They’ve got time to hold hearings on baseball, so they clearly have plenty of time to hold hearings on the U.S. government’s torture policy.