Afghans Arrest Americans in Abuse Case

[baldguy]

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan forces arrested three Americans, including a purported former Green Beret, after raiding a jail they were allegedly running in the Afghan capital and finding prisoners hanging from their feet, officials said Thursday.

The U.S. military, facing a widening inquiry into prisoner abuse, quickly distanced itself from the three, who had been posing as American agents before being detained Monday. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Thursday "the U.S. government does not employ or sponsor these men."

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040708/ap_on_re_as/afghan_us_private_jail_7

[patdem]

1. So Americans are just 'showing up' in Afghanistan to hang Afghans

by their feet for sport? What?? the new 'Black Rhino'??? WTF :wtf:

[Longhorn]

6. Oh, man, I know it's not funny but your post still made me laugh!

It's one of those "laugh or go insane" situations! :silly:

[che lives on]

2. huge scandal brewing

Americans just don't go over to detain afghanis without American intel knowing about it.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi che lives on!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[thebigidea]

3. Rumsfeld added a note about this:

"I hang upside down each and every night in my bloom closet for 8 hours. What's wrong with 4 hours?"

[Massacure]

7. Rumsfeld is a vampire?

Okay so we have a Chimpanzee President, a Bald Eagle Vice-President, and a Vampire as Secretary of State. I never relized the White House was such a zoo. :silly:

[Judi Lynn]

11. If Richard Perle doesn't look like a vampire, no one does!

They ALL have morbid, death-worshipping personalities.

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Maybe Rummie

should trying standing on his feet all day, naked and with feces rubbed on him? Then he would be better able to compare himself to Iraq prisoners.

[yardwork]

4. I think that this may be the beginning of something big

Or it might get swept under the rug. The Afghan government is totally under BushCo's thumb.

[thebigidea]

9. I'm sure we can trust Hamid Karzai to get to the bottom of this.

[mourningdove92]

5. "A jail they were allegedly running"??

But our goverment knows nothing about them?

[thebigidea]

8. probably one of the secret prisons the Red Cross talked about

plausible deniability a-go-go!

[Judi Lynn]

12. I'll bet you're right. I hadn't made the connection yet. Good call. n/t

[pinniped]

10. Punishable by a trip to the soccer field.

n/t

[Robbien]

13. This has NED written all over it

Our Dogs of War being let out to play in Afghanistan.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. So now that Iraq is a sovereign nation

when do the Iraqis start arresting Americans?

This could get interesting.