SocraticGadfly: U.S. catches innocents in Afghanistan, abuses prisoners

June 16, 2008

U.S. catches innocents in Afghanistan, abuses prisoners

Well, what a nice double black eye. First, McClatchy reveals more details on what has long been known, that we’ve thrown a bunch of innocent people into the hellhole called Guantanamo, and the Afghan staging prisons on the way to Gitmo.

Second, we’ve got Abu Ghraib-type abuse in some of those same Afghan prisons. That includes beatings, wall shacklings and various forms of retributive violence.

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