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Below article written by my man Matt Fisher. Used to hang with Matt back in the stan, those were some good times.

By the by, I can tell you that More than a couple of times I saw some Afghan guys coming out of the back of US humvees after having been messed up pretty good by the Americans I presume for information, and then theyd run them to medical before turfing them out the front gate. I never saw anything like this at Julien or canadian only bases, although if they needed to go to town on some poor guy there’d be no reason to drag them back to the base. JTF may have had cause to lay down a few beatings in the the old days, but now Id say less so.

Few people truly understand the kinds of people that the intelligence community has to deal with, and frankly we are at war and sometimes these dudes deserve everything they get. That being said, there is no reason to contravene the Geneva convention, we have to aspire to higher truths, even at the cost of “American lives”. You cant fight fire with fire. Unfortunately it happens all the time. Did the Canadians know some of these guys were getting a tire iron taken to their feet after they were handed over to afghan authorities? Of course. Can they do anything about it? No. Pressuring afghan politicos at the top is a long way from the shitty, dank dungeons these guys get thrown into. Karzai has little or no control himself.

Furthermore, this little election they just had for new leadership was a joke yes, as most entry level democracies are in the first few and perhaps many elections. It wasnt Karzai who stuffed the ballots or caused them to be stuffed, it was those who would prefer to see the status quo remain firmly in place, and let me tell you, there are a LOT of people who like the status quo in afghanistan, as there are a lot of corrupt people in power under Karzai. The people of Afghanistan dont want or need the status quo, but theyll have to start a revolution to disrupt it before too long.

Cannon denies all Canadian detainees tortured by Afghans: ”

BY MATTHEW FISHER, CANWEST NEWS SERVICENOVEMBER 19, 2009

An inquiry is looking into whether military police lived up to Canada’s international obligations in transferring battlefield detainees to Afghan jailers.
Photograph by: Brian Hutchinson/National Post, National Post
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon emphatically stated Thursday that disaffected diplomat Richard Colvin’s claims that all detainees handed over to Afghan authorities by Canadian troops were subsequently tortured were unproven.

‘There were a lot of allegations, but there is no proof to what Mr. Colvin had to say,’ in testimony to a parliamentary committee Wednesday, Cannon said during a telephone interview from Kabul where he was attending the inauguration of Afghan President H”

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