[Peace-discuss] Obama's torture: different from Bush's?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Not sure what is secret about it.


On 4/9/2011 12:17 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> US confirms secret jails in Afghanistan
> Fri Apr 8, 2011 5:48PM
>
> The United States has finally confirmed the presence of secret prisons 
> in Afghanistan, where detainees are interrogated for weeks without 
> being charge.
>
> Afghans are held captive for up to nine weeks in secret US detention 
> facilities, depending on the value of information they produce, and 
> are tortured by American prison guards, according to US officials who 
> revealed details of the detention network to The Associated Press.
>
> The most secretive network of jails is based at the notorious US-run 
> Bagram prison camp and airbase in Afghanistan's eastern province of 
> Parwan.
>
> The secret jail in Bagram, which is the principle air base for US 
> forces currently stationed in Afghanistan, is run by the Joint Special 
> Operations Command. The force is the US military's most elite 
> counter-terrorism unit.
>
> According to a report issued by the US-based Open Society Foundation 
> in October 2010, former detainees said they were abused, deprived of 
> sleep, held in cold isolation cells and prevented from observing 
> religious rituals while held captive in the hidden facility at Bagram.
>
> Over 800 detainees are being held at Bagram, which became a symbol of 
> prisoner abuse after US troops beat two detainees to death in 2002.
>
> The International Committee of the Red Cross had earlier confirmed 
> reports on the existence of a secret detention facility at the US 
> airbase in Bagram.
>
> The Red Cross said in May 2010 that it had been informed of names of 
> several detainees held in the hidden prison in Afghanistan.
>
> Several former prisoners asserted earlier in April that they were held 
> at the facility, where they suffered abuse.
>
> Human rights groups say Bagram has remained a US torture center since 
> the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan ten years ago.
>
> http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173764.html
>
>
> On 4/8/11 9:20 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/commandos-hold-afghan-detainees-in-secret-jails/#more-44262 
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