Taxi to the Dark Side of Afghanistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsJOeNoDJU
Documentary highlights detainee abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan Nick
Langewis and David Edwards
Published: Thursday January 24, 2008 reddit_url=window.location.href
reddit_title='Documentary highlights detainee abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan'
"'Soldiers are dying. Get the information.' That's all
you're told: Get the information."
--Pfc. Damien Corsetti
Oscar-nominated documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side" highlights what prisoners
of war in Iraq and Afghanistan endure as it tells the story of Dilawar, a
22-year-old Afghan cab driver who was killed while in American custody.
Dilawar and his passengers had been stopped near Bagram Air Base and detained
under suspicion of involvement in a rocket attack against US forces. Dilawar's
prompt death was ruled a homicide due to evidence of blunt force trauma
inflicted while he was in custody at Bagram.
Dilawar's three passengers would be deemed no threat to American forces...
after fifteen months at Guantanamo Bay.
"This is a kid who'd never spent...a night away from home in his life," says
writer/director Alex Gibney, "until he was taken forcibly from his taxicab,
thrown into Bagram Prison, and five days later he was dead."
"We were also told they were nothing but dogs," says Sgt. Ken Davis,
stationed at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "Then, all of a sudden,
you start looking at these people as less than human, and you start doing
things to them you would never dream of."
The White House had no comment on the documentary.
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