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ICC says US forces may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan
There are preliminary grounds according to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague to believe that U.S. forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan and at secret detention facilities elsewhere in 2003 and 2004.
According to the report by prosecutors, there was a “reasonable basis to believe” that U.S. forces had tortured prisoners in Afghanistan and at Central Intelligence Agency detention facilities elsewhere during the time mentioned.
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“Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture,” the prosecutors’ office, wrote. It added that CIA officials appeared to have tortured another 27 detainees.
Furthermore, the report revealed that; “These alleged crimes were not the abuses of a few isolated individuals,” the report said. “They appear to have been committed as part of approved interrogation techniques in an attempt to extract ‘actionable intelligence.”
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