Protest in Afghanistan after Quran burning

[nikhil25]

Re: Protest in Afghanistan after Quran burning

@Med911

Well, I dont think you have been keeping up with the news. If I were you, I would pray to stay out of all prisons, under any circumstance.

Take the case of two known prisoners who died in American run prisons in Afghanistan. One named Dilawar, and another named Habibullah, who was apparently kicked to death.
Afghan Prisoners Were ‘Tortured to Death’ by American Guards
Abu Gharaib and Bagram are infamous.

Also, an advantage to being an American in prison is not being deprived of sleep, water boarded, hounded by dogs and refused a trial. You would also get a slightly larger cell with some degree of privacy, while in prisons like guamtanmo, you would be put in a cage.
You would also be allowed visitations, recreational activity, and a lawyer with an option to appeal american prisons for americans. Many people (accused of terrorism) were held under US custody without trial. Most were foreign nationals, but with the passage of the new law, signed by our very own Obama, even Americans can now be held indefinitely without trial.

And while American personnel accused of torture can be held to account, unlike those being held by Afghans, its little comfort to those who have already died, been tortured, and spent years without trial in American run prisons.

i don’t dispute this at all but the critical distinction is that you are referring to treatment used towards the extraction of information from enemy combatants. it’s easy to confuse the two when the prison is both an interrogation facility and a prison - a function of the war context. it is misleading to portray this as “prison conditions”.

this is not comparable to a domestic US prison. the only thing comparable is the prison conditions themselves, which is what i was referring to.