several days ago word got out of the
u.s. military investigating death of afghan in custody
. in initial reports, we were treated to moronic reasoning as to
exactly why the examiners had decided to call the case a
homicide:
“The spokesman for the United States-led force in
Afghanistan, Col. Roger King, said in an e-mail message that the
choice of the box “homicide” to describe the death meant only that
“the doctor felt something besides the other choices listed
(natural, accident, suicide) led to the death.””
amazingly in this day and age, it appears that
now military officials are now indeed admitting that
they were killed
:
“American military officials acknowledged yesterday
that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been
killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul
– reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its
treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa’ida operatives.A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of
death of the two men was “homicide”, contradicting earlier accounts
that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary
embolism.”