Americans hung Afghan detainees by feet (and beat them)

[donsu]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5392990

Three Americans arrested in Afghanistan were on a self-appointed counterterrorism mission that included abusing eight inmates in a private jail by hanging them by their feet, Afghan officials said Thursday.

The U.S. Embassy identified one of the men detained Monday in a raid in Kabul as Jonathan K. Idema, a purported former Green Beret who claims to have links with Afghan militia forces.

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“They were hanging upside down,” the official said on condition of anonymity. The official said reports on the case showed that the men were beaten, though he had no details.

Still, the intelligence official said the three foreigners were wearing uniforms that appeared to be from the U.S. military and were armed with assault rifles.

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and our military did this:

The U.S. military took the unusual step on Monday — before news of his detention was widely known — of distancing itself from Idema, who “allegedly represented himself as an American government and/or military official.”

[billybob537]

1. Whats up with that

since when can you freelance in the prison business.

[jukes]

2. Mission Impossible

n/t

[billybob537]

5. Thats hilarious; Mission Impossible

thats the ring tone on my cell.

[amber dog democrat]

3. Expendable fall-guys ?

Too bad they got caught.

[donsu]

4. "too bad"? they hung men up by their feet and beat them

too bad?

[AndyTiedye]

6. Inversion Therapy?

Just the thing for sitting too long in front of a computer
or in an interrogation room.

[amber dog democrat]

7. meant sarcastically

who knows what the real story is here or whom they were working for.
I guess its the price of exporting "freedom" to other parts of the world.