US defends treatment of detainees in Afghanistan

[Judi Lynn]

US defends treatment of detainees in Afghanistan

December 16 2004


KABUL: The US military defended its human-rights record in Afghanistan on Wednesday, claiming that a May inspection by an American general found no evidence of abuse at 22 detention centres in the country.

The military, however, admitted that a still-unreleased report of the inspection by Brig-Gen Charles Jacoby Jr will not include incidents before May, including investigations into the deaths of prisoners.

Pentagon officials said a day earlier that eight prisoner deaths in Afghanistan have been investigated since mid-2002, a higher number than previously reported. Human Rights Watch said slow-paced investigations had ‘spawned a culture of impunity’ that may have fuelled prisoner abuse in Iraq. "We can’t go back and change the past," US Major Mark McCann told reporters in Kabul.
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http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en75080&F_catID=&f_type=source



The Army has tasked Brig.
Gen. Charles H. Jacoby,
USMA Class of 1978, to
review all Afghanistan
detention operations.
DoD Photo

[Solly Mack]

1. How convenient.

"We can’t go back and change the past," US Major Mark McCann told reporters in Kabul.


Oh yeah, that changes everything.

what a bunch of assholes

[Judi Lynn]

2. I've been looking for photos of Major Mark McCann, and there aren't any

although he's the U.S. Army spokesman in Afghanistan. Odd. I found this strange article I was hoping someone could make sense of, in which his name is mentioned. It's hard to grasp:

SPY PLANE CRASHES INTO SCHOOL IN AFGHANISTAN, NO INJURIES
Received Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:12:00 GMT
KABUL, Dec 2 (AFP) - An unmanned spy plane believed to be operated by a US security firm crashed into a school in the Afghan capital Kabul without causing any casualties, an eyewitness and sources told AFP Thursday.
The unmanned 1.5 meter (yard) long drone smashed into a window at the French-funded Istiqlal high school close to President Hamid Karzai's palace, according to a senior official at the school.
DynCorp, a private US security company that guards the president, uses drones to survey the grounds around the palace, a source close to Karzai told AFP.
"It crashed shortly after 1:00pm (0830 GMT) on a window of the center which was broken and nobody was injured," said the director of the school's cultural center Daniel Massat-Bourrat.
Two heavily-armed Americans in plain clothes jumped the wall of the palace into the school grounds and removed the wreckage, offering to pay for repairs, Massat-Bourrat said.
"They presented themselves with a codename: planet," Massat-Bourrat said.
The drone did not belong to the US military, spokesman Major Mark McCann said. Three US military unmanned craft have crashed in Afghanistan this year, with the last coming down on November 24.
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So if Americans went and got the drone, to what country did the drone belong, considering other U.S. drones have crashed there? Hmmmmmmm.

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Why is it, when Karzai lives within a PALACE it's o.k., but when Saddam Hussein lived within a palace, it was NOT o.k., according to what _Bush has claimed? I don't understand.