US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be "an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time."

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[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Well, there's been several cases of brutality involving the authorities of the government when it comes to people who could be suspects. This case calls the attention because of the sheer cruelty of it.

US interrogators tortured and killed a detainee because of he was an Afghan despite most people thinking he was just an innocent man. A lot of people in the military and other armed forces aren't confortable with the idea of corruption in their institutions, but it surely is there.

[–]pudsmoker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

i dont believe one single word of this story.. for simply driving past a military base, he was taken into custody and hanged by his hands and beaten until dead?

nah..

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When beaten, he repeatedly cried "Allah!" The outcry appears to have amused U.S. military personnel. The act of striking him in order to provoke a scream of "Allah!" eventually "became a kind of running joke," according to one of the MPs. "People kept showing up to give this detainee a common peroneal strike just to hear him scream out 'Allah,'" he said. "It went on over a 24-hour period, and I would think that it was over 100 strikes." - Bagram torture and prisoner abuse

Not for simply driving past. For being funny to torture. The driving past thing was just how they got hold of him.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I am sure there was a documentary made about this, forgot the name though.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Taxi To The Darkside

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Compared to all the heads sawed off with a dull butcher knife....I'll be withholding the tears, but feel free to cue the violins... and the howling islamaholic mourners.

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Show a little humanity, if you hope to ever present the USA as 'the good guys'. FFS.

[–]dramasexual 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This dude didn't do any of that, my man.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There's a HUGE difference between the average Muslim citizen and the Wahhabist extremists (supported and protected by our Western ally Saudi Arabia) - just like there's a huge difference between the average Western Christian and the Zionist NeoCons in Washington who claim to be Christians while killing millions with their bombs, sanctions, covert ops, exploitation, suppression, vaccinations, etc.

[–]ArcturianDeathTrap 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Now that he's dead, they can't cause him pain everyday! The dead are so lucky

[–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Hmn

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Come on this is obviously done in the name of freedom.