A Little Reminder of What Al Qaeda and the Taliban Considered Torture

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The release of the already discredited Senate “torture report” has left liberals in a state of gleeful pearl clutching as they pretended to be shocked by the shocking revelation that enhanced interrogation can mean sleep deprivation and assorted mind games.

Meanwhile here’s a little reminder of what real torture looks like as perpetrated by the Taliban.

I was one of the Taliban’s torturers: I crucified people

Instead of just searching for criminals, the night patrols were instructed to seek out people watching videos, playing cards or, bizarrely, keeping caged birds. Men without long enough beards were to be arrested, as was any woman who dared venture outside her house. Even owning a kite became a criminal offence.

“Basically any form of pleasure was outlawed,” Mr Hassani said, “and if we found people doing any of these things we would beat them with staves soaked in water – like a knife cutting through meat – until the room ran with their blood or their spines snapped. Then we would leave them with no food or water in rooms filled with insects until they died.

“We always tried to do different things: we would put some of them standing on their heads to sleep, hang others upside down with their legs tied together. We would stretch the arms out of others and nail them to posts like crucifixions.”

“Maybe the worst thing I saw,” he said, “was a man beaten so much, such a pulp of skin and blood, that it was impossible to tell whether he had clothes on or not. Every time he fell unconscious, we rubbed salt into his wounds to make him scream.”

He was told that if he died while fighting under the white flag of the Taliban, he and his family would go to paradise. The soldiers were given blank marriage certificates signed by a mullah and were encouraged to “take wives” during battle, basically a licence to rape.

These were the monsters that liberals went out of their way to defend, whose cause they took up at Gitmo and whose interrogations they are now outraged by. What happened to detained Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Gitmo wasn’t torture. This was torture.

  • uleaveuswithnoalternative

    During the war in Iraq, I remember an incident where US soldiers found the bodies of their comrades who had been captured and tortured by the enemy.
    The bodies of our dead soldiers were in such horrendous condition that the only way to identify them was through DNA testing.
    And I’m supposed to be horrified by a little water up the nose, a few sleepless nights and the old medical practice of proctoclysis/Murphy drip (administering medications or fluids through a tube inserted into the lower alimentary canal)?

    Diane Feinstein and House Democrats APPROVED the use of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” that they are now condemning.
    What, suddenly these Democrats have grown a “conscious?”

  • Dan Knight

    Thanks Daniel for the reminder of the disingenuity of Leftists

  • truebearing

    That is truly unconscionable evil. For the morons on the Left to equate waterboarding with these kinds of demonic acts is beyond absurd. The Left isn’t opposed to torture, or they would recoil at these stories and condemn the jihadis. What they are opposed to is America defending itself, or worse, winning. They are the enemies in our midst and we need to expunge their depravity from this country, any way we can.

    • sammid

      I’m not opposed to torture if it saves American lives. I AM opposed to the damned morons exposing this information for political gain, and for putting American lives in danger. Making this information public is inexcusable, and puts the security of our nation at risk. This act is treasonous and all involved deserve to be arrested.

  • Harold Svenssen

    The worldview of the Left would be deemed silly were they not given power too often and in too many places.

  • Harry

    Yes…why not compare one’s standards to those of the Taliban….and you surely have forgotten about Abu Ghraib.

    • 1private_eye

      That was a frat initiation compared to actual torture. you need context to give you perspective.

    • tagalog

      Well, we didn’t saw their heads off on TV at Abu Ghraib.

      We made them obey cigarette-smoking women guards -I got a kick out of that- and they made ‘em do nude human pyramids. Okay by me. They shouldn’t have done that, but it wasn’t real disturbing to my sensibilities, compared with the crispy critter civilian contract workers’ bodies hung from the bridge girders in Fallujah.

      • Harry

        You should then try phosphorus bombs, depleted uranium and drone attacks on civil…sorry “human shields”.

        • tagalog

          I occasionally remember the video shots of the large al-Qaeda or Taliban gathering that occurred a little while ago and that was broadcast on American TV. It never fails to make me think of how effective it would have been to have a multiple-drone attack, or a high-level bombing attack with a MOAB or two, or some cluster bombs, or thermobaric bombs, on that group. Maybe we’d have a few less beheadings.

  • Bamaguje

    Just reading Mr Greenfield’s excerpt sent shivers down my spine.
    How can one human be so cruel to another… just for the grievous offense of watching video or playing cards?

  • notme123

    this conveniently disclosed report was released now just to take attention away from the real outrages/scandals committed by the 0 administration, 0care, Bengazi, IRS, Holder and his racism, and on and on….

  • tagalog

    Islam is a religion of peace, mustn’t forget that.

  • http://OccupyBawlStreet.com OccupyBawlStreet.com

    alrighty- that pic looks to be in Times Square not all that far from WTC attacks of 9/11/01… moron in orange suit does NOT look like he’s missed many meals… CIA employees & contractors are PATRIOTS!

  • pupsncats

    But Daniel, we, the civilized people who support the ripping out of the bodies of millions of unborn human beings from their own mother’s wombs, or place the mutilated bodies of failed abortions in closets to die, are morally superior to the barbarian Taliban and Al Qaeda.

    • kiwi41

      You idiot, until people like you realize that unless we institute ethnic cleansing of some sub -human species and control ALL breeding, the world will totally regress to a 7th century level of barbarism .

      Ferguson is a good domestic example, more slimes another.

      • http://www.chaverimisrael.org Norbert Haag

        Thanks for reminding me that some so called conservatives are simply the same mindless monsters as their progressive and muslim counterparts and must be coped with the same way.

        • tagalog

          One of the saddest conundrums today is the fact that the Muslim critique that Western civilization has become degenerate has some merit to it.

  • Hard Little Machine

    This is why instead of fighting them we need to air drop a billion machetes and some fliers accusing them all of being pork eating Zionists and let nature take its course. 30 days, tops there’s no more radical Islamic fundatardism.

  • WatrGrrl

    My belief is that the condemnation from the Democrats originates from the Muslim-In-Chief in his incessant program of destroying this nation and our national image. That Russia, China, Iran and other exemplars of how to treat one’s enemies (or citizens) should condemn the US is laughable and has about as much credence as Obama’s claim that he was born in the United States. Enhanced interrogation may be undesirable to contemplate by the limp-wristed liberals so I think there should be uncut, unedited televised reminders of what true torture conducted by Muslims or Africans looks like so that they can have a more realistic perspective and frame of reference. Then, maybe they’ll shut-the-f-up for at least 30 seconds…

  • Harry

    Too sad indeed, so why are the US and the Saudi’s sponsoring this Al Qaeda mob since 1975, again and again?

    • 1private_eye

      Show me where we (the U.S.) have supported them since 1975. We have fought muslim fanatics since Thomas Jefferson but not the same “group”.

      • Harry

        Why should I show you? Because you’re either lazy or uninformed? Read a few books by Brzezinski and follow John McCain’s middle east agenda. Use Google. It’s all there in the open.

        • 1private_eye

          You are intellectually lazy and do not question the answers that are spoon fed to you by your “superiors”. People like you were described as “useful idiots” by Trotisky. P.S. John McCain is a progressive. I am still waiting for you to answer my previous post. Until you can answer please do not waste my time.

    • 1private_eye

      You skip past what I said in my post above and answer with “too sad”? Really, you sound more like a troll than a feeling Human Being.

      • Harry

        You sound like you watch Fox News.

        • 1private_eye

          And you are one of three Msnbc viewers, to stupid to find Fox. I do not watch any cable networks, you should check facts not zits on your face.