A Different Drummer

This New York Times stuff is about as horrible as it gets.....

"Military lawyers noted that the autopsies of the two dead detainees had found severe trauma to both prisoners' legs - injuries that a coroner later compared to the effect of being run over by a bus. They also acknowledged statements by more than half a dozen guards that they or others had struck the detainees.....

"No one blow could be determined to have caused the death," the former senior staff lawyer at Bagram, Col. David L. Hayden, said he had been told by the Army's lead investigator. "It was reasonable to conclude at the time that repetitive administration of legitimate force resulted in all the injuries we saw."

Turns out that the poor bastard was a taxi driver, unlucky enough to be driving past a US base the day after a rocket attack. He was 5'9 and weighed and intimidating 122 pounds - imtimidating enough for him to get chained by his arms to the roof of a cell and beaten more than 100 times in the 24 hours before he died.