Friday, May 20, 2005

New York Times - In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths

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

This beginning reminds me of the beginning of the Dark Tower series:
"The man in black fled accross the dessert, and the gunslinger followed!"

We need to get to the 5th paragraph to read:
"The story of Mr. Dilawar's brutal death at the Bagram Collection Point - and that of another detainee, Habibullah, who died there six days earlier in December 2002 - emerge from a nearly 2,000-page confidential file of the Army's criminal investigation into the case, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times."

The theatricality, and the fact that many will read the first few paragraphs, or even the one I just quoted and come away thinking the Army is a brutal organization, routinely murdering its detainees, degrading them, and torturing them. And the material comes from an Army investigation that resulted in multiple trials, and sentences.

This is another example of giving aid and comfort to our enemies.

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