IPFS News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. had advance warning of abuse at Afghan prisons, officials say
• Washington PostAcross the street from U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, shrouded
from view by concrete walls, the Afghan intelligence agency runs a
detention facility for up to 40 terrorism suspects that is known as
Department 124. So much torture took place inside, one detainee told the
United Nations, that it has earned a different name: “People call it
Hell.”