Fruited Plains, indeed.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.


The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days.


Mr. Dilawar asked for a drink of water, and one of the two interrogators, Specialist Joshua R. Claus, 21, picked up a large plastic bottle. But first he punched a hole in the bottom, the interpreter said, so as the prisoner fumbled weakly with the cap, the water poured out over his orange prison scrubs. The soldier then grabbed the bottle back and began squirting the water forcefully into Mr. Dilawar's face.


"Come on, drink!" the interpreter said Specialist Claus had shouted, as the prisoner gagged on the spray. "Drink!"


At the interrogators' behest, a guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling.


"Leave him up," one of the guards quoted Specialist Claus as saying.

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When do we ACT? What is enough?

[Andy_Stephenson]

1. But Tandy...Alberto

says torture is ok...We should just all accept it and remember those fine young Americans are doing God's work. :puke:

[liberal N proud]

2. But what about the people from 9/11

You are worried about one Afghan and yet you don't mention the thousands that died on 9/11.
What is wrong with you, are un-American, not patriotic?

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[PA Democrat]

3. The autopsy report stated that the young man's legs

"had basically been pulpified."

Sickening. And that piece of excrement named Scotty McCLellan puffs himself up in self-righteous indignation over a 300 word blurb in Newsweek. The claims of abuse of the Quran pale in comparison to these completely corroborated accounts of despicable torture of prisoners. Yeah, right Scotty, people have died because of Newsweek.

[Village Idiot]

4. If you are looking for SUPREME IRONY...

All you have to think about is that Ghengis Khan actually OUTLAWED torture THROUGHOUT his empire...

[ariellyn]

5. I weep for that man, and for America. n/t