This doesn't really have anything to do with Israel though.
There are actually some people who really are dumber than a brick and believe that America is just as "evil" as ISIS. Either that, or they support the cause of ISIS and their tactics. I don't doubt that either.
I condemn in absolute and categorical terms what ISIS has done to prisoners but here is what we did to a
totally innocent man:
Mr. Dilawar, age 22, had the misfortune to be driving his taxi back to his hometown with three passengers while on a road where a US military outpost had been the subject of a rocket attack. He spent five days at Afghan Air Force Base, shackled to a wall, his legs beaten to a pulp. This is a description of what he endured there at the hands of his interrogators, most of whom considered him innocent:
Black hood over his head caused difficulty breathing:
"He could not breathe," said ... one of Mr. Dilawar's passengers. [
Note, the three surviving passengers were detained at Guantanamo for one year, before being released in March 2004 with official documents stating they posed no risk to the United States]
Forced to kneel and hold his arms, which were hand cuffed, over his head during interrogation:
[Dilawar] was unable to hold his cuffed hands above his head as instructed, prompting Sergeant Salcedo to slap them back up whenever they began to drop.
Beatings for not being able to sit upright because of the condition of his legs:
When Mr. Dilawar was unable to sit in the chair position against the wall because of his battered legs, the two interrogators grabbed him by the shirt and repeatedly shoved him back against the wall.
Kicked in groin; Pulled to standing position using his beards, foot crushed by interrogator's boot:
"They stood him up, and at one point Selena stepped on his bare foot with her boot and grabbed him by his beard and pulled him towards her," he went on. "Once Selena kicked Dilawar in the groin, private areas, with her right foot. She was standing some distance from him, and she stepped back and kicked him.
Dilawar's head slammed into table:
"[US Interrogator] had a rule that the detainee had to look at him, not me," the interpreter told investigators. "He gave him three chances, and then he grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him towards him, across the table, slamming his chest into the table front."
Threatened with anal rape:
Specialist Walls grabbed the prisoner and "shook him harshly," the interpreter said, telling him that if he failed to cooperate, he would be shipped to a prison in the United States, where he would be "treated like a woman, by the other men" ...
And of course the constant smashing of Mr. Dilawar's legs, shattering them into who knows how many tiny pieces:
The findings of Mr. Dilawar's autopsy were succinct. He had had some coronary artery disease, the medical examiner reported, but
what caused his heart to fail was "blunt force injuries to the lower extremities."
One of the coroners later translated the assessment at a pre-trial hearing for Specialist Brand, saying the tissue in the young man's legs "had basically been pulpified."
"I've seen similar injuries in an individual run over by a bus," added Lt. Col. Elizabeth Rouse, the coroner, and a major at that time.