Freed Afghan journalist reunited with family (after tortured & held by US for 11 months)...

[Indi Guy]

Source: CTV (Canadian TV)

<snip>He says U.S. Special Forces beat him and kept awake for days at a time.

"Whenever I try to sleep they would shout 'Get up, get up' and then 'Jojo is a spy. Jojo is al Qaeda. Jojo is Taliban. Jojo is finished,'" Yazamy (Jojo) told Workman.

Yazamy, who was designated as an "enemy combatant," said he was also told that his family had been arrested and that he was being sent to Guantanamo Bay.

<snip>In Bagram, Yazamy said soldiers forced him to stand on the snowy runway with no shoes for six hours. He said he passed out twice but was forced to stand back up.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080924/afghan_journalist_080924/20080924?hub=TopStories

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Jawed Ahmad, who worked primarily for CTV, hugs a family member after being released in Kandahar City on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008.

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Indi Guy]

2. With this kind of "freedom" on the march...

...I can't imagine what tyranny might look like.

[Solly Mack]

3. No kidding

:(

[High Plains]

4. Winning hearts and minds, one torture victim at a time.

[Indi Guy]

5. Just imagine the tip of the iceberg the published stories represent n/t