Ex-Afghanistan Detainee Alleges Torture by U.S.

A resident of Germany who was imprisoned for two months at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan has told an interviewer that his interrogators hung him from a ceiling for five days and that several doctors periodically checked him before authorizing the torture to continue.
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Carol D. Leonnig

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