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Afghan spies arrest US translator for torture
Published July 08, 2013AFP
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan's intelligence agency is holding an Afghan-American translator on suspicion of torturing and killing civilians while working for US special forces, officials said Monday.
Zakrya Kandahari, who worked with the elite US troops in Wardak province bordering Kabul, was detained in May by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) following an order from President Hamid Karzai.
"Zakrya Kandahari... a translator for American special forces in Nerkh district of Wardak, accused of multiple felonies, was arrested in a special operation," the spy agency said in its first report on the case.
Three guns, a laptop and several fake documents were found in his possession during the raid in the southern city of Kandahar, the NDS added in a statement.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/08/afghan-spies-arrest-us-translator-for-torture/
Prior:
If allegations are true, this torture would be far worse than Abu Ghraib. This apparenty has been a big story in Afghanistan but US media had been giving it a pass for the most part.
If claim about torture video is factual, not sure if Obama team will be able to keep it from becoming public in US.
Afghan Officials: Body of US Torture Video Victim Found Near Base Wardak Torture Victim's Footless Corpse Just 200 Yards From Base
May 21, 2013
The complaints about Afghan-American torturer Zakaria Kandahari took an ugly turn for the worse today, as Afghan officials announced that the victim in a torture video showing Kandahari was discovered just 200 yards outside of the US military base at which he was stationed.
The victim, a Wardak Province civilian named Sayid Mohammad, had disappeared into the custody of US Special Forces before the video emerged last week showing Kandahari torturing him. The US denied the video showed US troops, but Kandahari was heard taking instructions from an unseen man with an American accent.
Mohammad’s fate was a mystery until laborers digging a ditch just outside of the base at which Kandahari was said to be stationed uncovered a “military-style black body bag,” with most of Mohammad’s corpse inside. Both feet were missing, and still unaccounted for.
The grim story is part of the ongoing fight among Wardak residents to see US special forces removed from the region, and follows the similar disappearance of Mohammad Qassim, another local whose body was found at a trash pit outside the base after his own “detention.”
Afghans Claim to Have Video of US Special Forces Guy Torturing Civilians
05.13.13
Afghan officials say they’ve got video of a man overseeing the torture of Afghan civilians. Exactly who ordered the man to torture is a matter of fierce dispute — and also helps explain this year’s erosion of trust between Washington and Kabul.
Allegedly, there’s a videotape in Afghan government hands showing a man named Zakaria Kandahari presiding over the torture of an Afghan civilian who, along with 15 others, recently disappeared from Wardak Province. According to the New York Times, Kandahari, an American citizen, is “seen conducting” the torture session and “supervising” others.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/wor...afghans-say/RIqShgNJyM0B8smM24TCMN/story.html
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/05/21/afghan-officials-body-of-us-torture-video-victim-found-near-base/
Details about different Afghan allgations about previous killing of civilians by so called "kill team" were in news last week:
Afghan woman recounts how US soldier killed her husband in rampage; case set for court-martial
Published May 16, 2013
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family sometime before dawn on March 11, 2012.
According to Masooma, an American soldier wearing a helmet equipped with a flashlight burst into her two-room mud home while everyone slept. He killed her husband, Dawood, punched her 7-year-old son and shoved a pistol into the mouth of his baby brother.
"We were asleep. He came in and he was shouting, saying something about Taliban, Taliban, and then he pulled my husband up. I screamed and screamed and said, 'We are not Taliban, we are not government. We are no one. Please don't hurt us,'" she said.
The soldier wasn't listening. He pointed his pistol at Masooma to quiet her and pushed her husband into the living room.
"My husband just looked back at me and said, 'I will be back.'" Seconds later she heard gunshots, she recalled, her voice cracking as she was momentarily unable to speak. Her husband was dead.
The AP also interviewed other villagers about the case, all of whom are identified by the U.S. Army as witnesses or relatives of witnesses. They included a sister and brother who were wounded and two men who were away during the killings and returned to find wives and children slain. The sister and brother told AP how they tried to run away and hide from a soldier with a gun, only to be shot — and see their neighbors and grandmother killed.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of Lake Tapps, Washington, is accused of the killings. Prosecutors say Bales slipped away from his remote outpost to attack two nearby villages, returning in the middle of the rampage and then for a final time soaked in blood.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/0...r-killed-her-husband-in-rampage-case-set-for/
Published July 08, 2013AFP
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan's intelligence agency is holding an Afghan-American translator on suspicion of torturing and killing civilians while working for US special forces, officials said Monday.
Zakrya Kandahari, who worked with the elite US troops in Wardak province bordering Kabul, was detained in May by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) following an order from President Hamid Karzai.
"Zakrya Kandahari... a translator for American special forces in Nerkh district of Wardak, accused of multiple felonies, was arrested in a special operation," the spy agency said in its first report on the case.
Three guns, a laptop and several fake documents were found in his possession during the raid in the southern city of Kandahar, the NDS added in a statement.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/08/afghan-spies-arrest-us-translator-for-torture/
Prior:
If allegations are true, this torture would be far worse than Abu Ghraib. This apparenty has been a big story in Afghanistan but US media had been giving it a pass for the most part.
If claim about torture video is factual, not sure if Obama team will be able to keep it from becoming public in US.
Afghan Officials: Body of US Torture Video Victim Found Near Base Wardak Torture Victim's Footless Corpse Just 200 Yards From Base
May 21, 2013
The complaints about Afghan-American torturer Zakaria Kandahari took an ugly turn for the worse today, as Afghan officials announced that the victim in a torture video showing Kandahari was discovered just 200 yards outside of the US military base at which he was stationed.
The victim, a Wardak Province civilian named Sayid Mohammad, had disappeared into the custody of US Special Forces before the video emerged last week showing Kandahari torturing him. The US denied the video showed US troops, but Kandahari was heard taking instructions from an unseen man with an American accent.
Mohammad’s fate was a mystery until laborers digging a ditch just outside of the base at which Kandahari was said to be stationed uncovered a “military-style black body bag,” with most of Mohammad’s corpse inside. Both feet were missing, and still unaccounted for.
The grim story is part of the ongoing fight among Wardak residents to see US special forces removed from the region, and follows the similar disappearance of Mohammad Qassim, another local whose body was found at a trash pit outside the base after his own “detention.”
Afghans Claim to Have Video of US Special Forces Guy Torturing Civilians
05.13.13
Afghan officials say they’ve got video of a man overseeing the torture of Afghan civilians. Exactly who ordered the man to torture is a matter of fierce dispute — and also helps explain this year’s erosion of trust between Washington and Kabul.
Allegedly, there’s a videotape in Afghan government hands showing a man named Zakaria Kandahari presiding over the torture of an Afghan civilian who, along with 15 others, recently disappeared from Wardak Province. According to the New York Times, Kandahari, an American citizen, is “seen conducting” the torture session and “supervising” others.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/wor...afghans-say/RIqShgNJyM0B8smM24TCMN/story.html
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/05/21/afghan-officials-body-of-us-torture-video-victim-found-near-base/
Details about different Afghan allgations about previous killing of civilians by so called "kill team" were in news last week:
Afghan woman recounts how US soldier killed her husband in rampage; case set for court-martial
Published May 16, 2013
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family sometime before dawn on March 11, 2012.
According to Masooma, an American soldier wearing a helmet equipped with a flashlight burst into her two-room mud home while everyone slept. He killed her husband, Dawood, punched her 7-year-old son and shoved a pistol into the mouth of his baby brother.
"We were asleep. He came in and he was shouting, saying something about Taliban, Taliban, and then he pulled my husband up. I screamed and screamed and said, 'We are not Taliban, we are not government. We are no one. Please don't hurt us,'" she said.
The soldier wasn't listening. He pointed his pistol at Masooma to quiet her and pushed her husband into the living room.
"My husband just looked back at me and said, 'I will be back.'" Seconds later she heard gunshots, she recalled, her voice cracking as she was momentarily unable to speak. Her husband was dead.
The AP also interviewed other villagers about the case, all of whom are identified by the U.S. Army as witnesses or relatives of witnesses. They included a sister and brother who were wounded and two men who were away during the killings and returned to find wives and children slain. The sister and brother told AP how they tried to run away and hide from a soldier with a gun, only to be shot — and see their neighbors and grandmother killed.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of Lake Tapps, Washington, is accused of the killings. Prosecutors say Bales slipped away from his remote outpost to attack two nearby villages, returning in the middle of the rampage and then for a final time soaked in blood.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/0...r-killed-her-husband-in-rampage-case-set-for/
