Posted on 10/16/2010 1:49:42 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Afghan prisoners taking part in a US study have claimed they were abused at a secret jail inside the main American military base in Afghanistan. Share Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller
Former inmates told the Open Society Institute they were subjected to sleep deprivation, extended periods of isolation and a lack of food and blankets. Some of the claimed abuses date from this year, despite President Barack Obama's pledge to overhaul prison practices.
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi said this does not surprise him because “the Obama administration is many respects worse than the Bush administration.”
“When Obama was running for president he talked a very good story about what he is going to do, but he actually has done very little of that,” Giraldi told RT. “We see the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, we see the secret prisons continuing, the government using what they call the ‘security privilege’ to keep it from being challenged in court on many of these prison-related issues.”
If they are able to talk about their abuse, they aren’t abused enough for their actions that jailed them.
ROTF!
Obama's directives just aren't pleasing ANYONE are they!
They're honestly compaining about that? Tired, lonely, hungry and cold? That's it? They sound like my 6 year old camping for crying out loud. I thought Afghani's were tough folk and that we're battling some hardened mountain-men. Buncha momma's boys.
Obviously, the girlymen in the Open Society Institute, including Giraldi, have never been in the military where these conditions are a way of life. I don't know why America's enemies should live any better than our soldiers do.
We have found captured terrorist manuals and papers which instruct any who are captured to claim abuse. They claim they weren’t fed despite the fact they gain weight while in captivity.
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Appears they were making them go on patrol with our troops. Oh! The horror!
pass the fruit of the loom would ya sarge
And inmate abuse is not even issue any longer.
Where are the NYC front page articles week after week?
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