The Dark Prisons of Afghanistan
Chilling stories today about secret prisons of Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch says it has credible reports that eight people now being held at Guantanamo Bay were tortured at one prison. According to the NYT, BBC and other news outlets, terrorism suspects were subjected to appalling conditions. Prisoner accounts are remarkably consistent. Called "black sites" by the intelligence community, inmates were often kept in total darkness, bombarded with heavy metal and shackled to walls.
I'm heading to Europe. l have to explain to my friends there that my country is run by madmen.
