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Sami1398 on October 15th, 2024 at 09:58 UTC »

Dilawar )was an innocent taxi driver who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time. At Bagram, Dilawar was chained to the ceiling of his cell, and suspended by his wrists for four days. His arms became dislocated from their sockets, and flapped around limply whenever guards collected him for interrogation. During his detention, Dilawar's legs were beaten to a pulp. They would have had to have been amputated because damage was so severe. He died on December 10, 2002, five days after he was arrested. He is survived by his wife and their daughter, Bibi Rashida.

The New York Times reported that: On the day of his death, Dilawar had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days. A guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling. "Leave him up," one of the guards quoted Specialist Claus as saying. Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen. It would be many months before Army investigators learned that most of the interrogators had in fact believed Mr. Dilawar to be an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time

His death was declared a homicide and was the subject of a major investigation by the US Army of abuses at the prison. It was prosecuted in the Bagram torture and prisoner abuse trials. In August 2005, lead interrogator Specialist Glendale C. Walls of the U.S. Army pleaded guilty at a military court to pushing Dilawar against a wall and doing nothing to prevent other soldiers from abusing him. Walls was subsequently sentenced to two months in a military prison. The sentence was criticized by Human Rights Watch.

An HBO documentary on his death "Taxi to the dark side" was released in 2008 detailing his torture and death:

Full documentary on youtube: Taxi to the Dark Side⎜WHY DEMOCRACY?⎜(Documentary)

xntebli on October 15th, 2024 at 10:57 UTC »

How many Dilawar we never knew about...

Quirky_Discipline297 on October 15th, 2024 at 11:45 UTC »

Sorry about the long quote but this pretty much explains the entire thing. Major General Geoffrey D. Miller, the developer and deployed of the torture regime used in Guantanamo and later in the Iraqi prison system including Abu Ghraib, was allowed to retire with full benefits.

> > Enhanced interrogation techniques” or “enhanced interrogation” was a program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at remote sites around the world—including Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Bucharest, and Guantanamo Bay—authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Methods used included beating, binding in contorted stress positions, hooding, subjection to deafening noise, sleep disruption,[8] sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination, deprivation of food, drink, and medical care for wounds, as well as waterboarding, walling, sexual humiliation, rape, sexual assault, subjection to extreme heat or extreme cold, and confinement in small coffin-like boxes.[9][10][11][12] A Guantanamo inmate’s drawings of some of these tortures, to which he himself was subjected, were published in The New York Times.[13] Some of these techniques fall under the category known as “white room torture”.[14] Several detainees endured medically unnecessary[15] “rectal rehydration”, “rectal fluid resuscitation”, and “rectal feeding”.[16][17] In addition to brutalizing detainees, there were threats to their families such as threats to harm children, and threats to sexually abuse or to cut the throat of detainees’ mothers.[18] The number of detainees subjected to these methods has never been authoritatively established, nor how many died as a result of the interrogation regime, though this number could be as high as 100.[19] The CIA admits to waterboarding three people implicated in the September 11 attacks: Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Mohammed al-Qahtani. A Senate Intelligence Committee found photos of a waterboard surrounded by buckets of water at the Salt Pit prison, where the CIA had claimed that waterboarding was never used.[20][21][22][23] Former guards and inmates at Guantánamo have said that deaths which the US military called suicides at the time, were in fact homicides under torture.[24] No murder charges have been brought for these or for acknowledged torture-related homicides at Abu Ghraib and at Bagram.[25] From the outset, there were concerns and allegations expressed that “enhanced interrogation” violated U.S. anti-torture statutes or international laws such as the UN Convention against Torture. In 2005, the CIA destroyed videotapes depicting prisoners being interrogated under torture; an internal justification was that what they showed was so horrific they would be “devastating to the CIA”, and that “the heat from destroying [the videotapes] is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes ever got into public domain”.