This was the lead story in the NY Times yesterday, and was posted in LBN, but for some reason I just want to post it again. OK?
????What have they done to my country????
The world's payback is going to be a bitch.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/politics/26ABUS.html?pagewanted=1"forced into asphyxiation numerous detainees in an attempt to obtain information" during a 10-week period last spring.
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In one of the oldest cases, involving the death of a prisoner in Afghanistan in December 2002, enlisted personnel from an active-duty military intelligence unit at Fort Bragg, N.C., and an Army Reserve military-police unit from Ohio are believed to have been "involved at various times in assaulting and mistreating the detainee."
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where two prisoners died in one week at what was known as the Bagram Collection Point
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two deaths, noting that the cause given on one of the death certificates was "homicide," a result of "blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease."
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The summary said they "forced into asphyxiations numerous detainees in an attempt to obtain information."
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investigators determined that General Mowhoush died after being shoved head-first into a sleeping bag, and questioned while being rolled repeatedly from his back to his stomach.
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Muhammad Najem Abed, died of cardiac arrest complicated by diabetes
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In the Feb. 19 case, Muhammad Saad Abdullah was found dead with "acute inflammation of the abdomen." An autopsy classified the death as natural, apparently caused by "peritonitis secondary to perforating gastric ulcer."
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the Army was investigating the deaths of 37 detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan
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