AMY GOODMAN: Dilawar was a taxi driver who the U.S. authorities imprisoned—
MARIAM GHANI: Mm-hmm, on false evidence, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: And killed.
MARIAM GHANI: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: And, I mean, how many times was his body hit?
MARIAM GHANI: His body was hit over a hundred times. And this was revealed in an internal Army investigation. The MPs involved, the military police involved in the incident themselves testified in the internal Army investigation that they hit him just to hear him cry “Allah!” because they thought it was funny. So that’s why they kept hitting him.
AMY GOODMAN: Repeat that, please.
MARIAM GHANI: They said, “We hit him just to hear him cry ‘Allah! Allah!’ because it’s so funny. It was so funny when he did it.”
AMY GOODMAN: I remember the descriptions of his body, of his muscles.
MARIAM GHANI: There were bruises all over his body, but especially all along his thighs and his torso.
AMY GOODMAN: His muscles shredded by these beatings.
MARIAM GHANI: Yeah. The internal muscles were shredded when they did the autopsy, yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: And this practice coming from U.S.—
MARIAM GHANI: It came from, yeah, a technique that was taught in U.S. police departments, although it was misapplied. It was applied in a way I don’t think it was ever intended to be applied. But it’s typical of the way that these techniques and personnel circulated into these other theaters of war and then were—I don’t want to say refined, but were transformed into something else, and then those same personnel then circulated to other theaters, so actually the same regiment of MPs who were at Bagram then were transferred to Abu Ghraib without, you know, any—this is basically before the investigation at Bagram was completed. The regiment was transferred to Abu Ghraib. And, you know, these policies, without really being examined or controlled, continue to kind of mushroom and develop. And ultimately, what happens is that the policies, the techniques, and now even the equipment, the military equipment, circulate back into the U.S., into our domestic sphere. More here.