Plenty of Notice: Afghan Prison Torture Report No Surprise to US
by Jason Ditz,
October 30, 2011
Systematic torture inside Afghan government prisons was a big story when the United Nations released a report detailing the enormous level of mistreatment, and NATO announced it would stop transferring detainees to those prisons. It didn’t catch anyone in the US military by surprise, however, as US officials now admit they had several warnings about the abuse in US-funded prisons and sat on the story until the UN report broke.
Click here to read more at the Washington Post
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salah u deen
October 30th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
the US forces in Afghanistan have been torturing prisoners too, so why would they object to it. They don’t care.