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The Nation.
July 8, 2016
Nearly all detective stories begin with a corpse, and all of Alex Gibney's documentaries are detective stories. In his Academy Award–winning Taxi to the Dark Side, it's the corpse of Dilawar the cab driver, desecrated into pulp by US soldiers at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan. As theÃâà...
Democracy Now!
August 12, 2015
But in the case of the prisoners at Bagram—Dilawar and Habibullah—the peroneal strikes were applied to their entire bodies, and they were applied not when the prisoners were in motion resisting arrest, but when they were actually suspended in a hanging position and left there for more than 24 hours,Ãâà...
RT
December 10, 2014
The US Defense Department announced it has closed the Bagram detention center and now has zero detainees in its custody in Afghanistan, Reuters ... Two of the most infamous cases involved prisoners named Habibullah and Dilawar, whose abuse was chronicled by The New York Times in 2005.
CNN International
September 25, 2012
He wants to tell his story after learning of the decision to transfer Bagram prison from U.S. to Afghan control. ..... It was during this period that two Afghan prisoners, Habibullah and Dilawar who were also hung by their wrists, were beaten to death by U.S. soldiers in Bagram Prison in December 2002. A U.S.Ãâà...
Toronto Star
March 26, 2008
Both the film and newspaper story portrayed an inexperienced unit of soldiers under tremendous pressure to get intelligence in Bagram. Claus was 21 at the time, and the assignment was his first deployment. But he said yesterday it was unfair to compare his interrogation of Khadr to that of Dilawar or theÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
March 25, 2008
Taxi to the Dark Side opens with an examination of the murder of Dilawar, a 22-year-old taxi driver from the poverty-stricken village of Yakubi in eastern Afghanistan, by US military forces at Bagram Air Base in December 2002. Dilawar and three of his passengers were captured by the Northern AllianceÃâà...
Mother Jones
November 9, 2005
In December 2002, four months after Wood and the 519th took over at Bagram, two detainees died in custody at the base. One was Mullah Habibullah, a 30-year-old man from the southern province of Oruzgan; the other was a 22-year-old taxi driver named Dilawar (many Afghans use only one name), who was married andÃâà...
Pravda
December 31, 1999
The biggest detention center for prisoners arrested by the US is in the Bagram Airbase, near Kabul. Not much information has been ... Two innocent Afghan prisoners, Habibullah and Dilawar were gruesomely killed under torture in 2002, under the command of US servicemen.Gul Rahman was left in theÃâà...
