Afghan Detainees

[Keepitsimple]

A UN report appears to support the Canadian Government's claims that they did their best to avoid Afghan prisoner abuse.

Afghanistans internal security service and police use torture and other abusive methods to extract confessions from suspected insurgents held in a number of detention centres around the country, according to a report today by the United Nations mission in Afghanistan.

Britain and Canada suspended transfers to Afghan internal security detention centres in Kabul. Canada continued to send prisoners to the main Kandahar City prison, although with the caveat that the Afghans should not torture them. The treatment of those prisoners was supposed to be monitored.

There was evidence that people arrested by Canadian troops were handled differently than those detained by Afghan or other NATO forces.

He told the UN he was beaten and kicked for days by internal security officers who demanded he confess to carrying a letter for the Taliban. Everyone arrested by Afghan intelligence officers had similar experiences, unless they had been arrested by Canadians, the man is quoted as saying.

For those arrested by Canadians, two [intelligence] officials were allocated for further interrogation and those interrogated by them never complained about ill treatment.

Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/detainees-tortured-in-a-number-of-afghan-facilities-un-concludes/article2196467/

Edited October 10, 2011 by Keepitsimple

[olp1fan]

A UN report appears to support the Canadian Government's claims that they did their best to avoid Afghan prisoner abuse.

I never bought into the Afghan detainee scandal, it is war, mistreatment often happens but I believed the Canadian troops wouldn't be savages

A link to the article would be nice

Edited October 10, 2011 by olp1fan

[Bob]

Although the UN is completely irrelevant and I don't trust a word that comes out the mouths of the rats that populate it, it'll be interesting to see the inevitable non-reaction to it. Will that disgusting Ujjal Dosanjh apologize for attempting to smear the Canadian military in order to win political points? How about that idiot Paul Dewar who pretended to give a damn about "Canada's reputation", clearly at the direction of Taliban Jack? It was sickening listening to those rats call for a "public inquiry" into this artificial controversy from the "diplomat" Colvin. What a pathetic charade, completely illustrative of how low Canada has sunk with its leftist politics, crying tears over worthless detainees and pretending to care about "international law", insofar as it protects the "rights" of savage desert nomads.

[olp1fan]

Although the UN is completely irrelevant and I don't trust a word that comes out the mouths of the rats that populate it, it'll be interesting to see the inevitable non-reaction to it. Will that disgusting Ujjal Dosanjh apologize for attempting to smear the Canadian military in order to win political points? How about that idiot Paul Dewar who pretended to give a damn about "Canada's reputation", clearly at the direction of Taliban Jack? It was sickening listening to those rats call for a "public inquiry" into this artificial controversy from the "diplomat" Colvin. What a pathetic charade, completely illustrative of how low Canada has sunk with its leftist politics, crying tears over worthless detainees and pretending to care about "international law", insofar as it protects the "rights" of savage desert nomads.

Bob, were you disgusted when you heard that Harpers government paid ransom for 2 Canadians? millions of dollars to terrorists who used money to buy weapons to kidnap more people and hold them for ransom? this after the cons started calling layton taliban jack AND Harper saying he'd never pay ransom to terrorists

Right wingers who aren't critical of this behaviour are disgusting and unCanadian

should we now call Harper Taliban Stephen?

Edited October 10, 2011 by olp1fan

[scribblet]

So we should've let them die I guess, and if the gov't did so, would you have been happy with them dieing, rather than pay ransom?

I know generally that paying a ransom it's not considered the right thing to do, but if it were you family, how would you feel. I feel strongly that had no ransom been paid, the gov't would be the worst SOBs under the sun.

[Jack Weber]

Although the UN is completely irrelevant and I don't trust a word that comes out the mouths of the rats that populate it, it'll be interesting to see the inevitable non-reaction to it. Will that disgusting Ujjal Dosanjh apologize for attempting to smear the Canadian military in order to win political points? How about that idiot Paul Dewar who pretended to give a damn about "Canada's reputation", clearly at the direction of Taliban Jack? It was sickening listening to those rats call for a "public inquiry" into this artificial controversy from the "diplomat" Colvin. What a pathetic charade, completely illustrative of how low Canada has sunk with its leftist politics, crying tears over worthless detainees and pretending to care about "international law", insofar as it protects the "rights" of savage desert nomads.

Rats twice...

Calling humans "worthless"...

Calling others "savages"...

Standard polemnic about "leftism"...

Nice going,Bobby...

Edited October 10, 2011 by Jack Weber

[olp1fan]

So we should've let them die I guess, and if the gov't did so, would you have been happy with them dieing, rather than pay ransom?

I know generally that paying a ransom it's not considered the right thing to do, but if it were you family, how would you feel. I feel strongly that had no ransom been paid, the gov't would be the worst SOBs under the sun.

yes, you do not pay ransom to terrorists, sure you would save a few lives but in the end they will kill more and buy loads of weapons with

the ransom money you gave them as well as putting more canadians at risk cause they know

youll pay them ransom

if youre not a soldier do not go to those countries

[Keepitsimple]

After all the relentless "reporting" by the CBC....what's the chances of this story seeing the light of day? That's right - don't hold your breath.

[capricorn]

After all the relentless "reporting" by the CBC....what's the chances of this story seeing the light of day? That's right - don't hold your breath.

Nothing to see here, move along.