They were given to the US for detention at a time when US forces were heavily reliant on Afghan proxies who had their own agendas and who accepted bounties for captives.
Traffickers, said by human rights activists to work with local officials and even police, regularly hold their captives to ransom, detaining and torturing them in jungle camps in southern Thailand where authorities have recently uncovered dozens of shallow graves.
Once we got back to the camp, they tied the legs and the hands of the captives and slit the throats of four of them as they shouted 'Allahu Akbar'.
Following the release of a video by Boko Haram earlier this week, showing around 130 of the abducted teenagers, Mungo Park escorted a group of girls who had managed to escape and relatives of those still missing to the nearby town of Maiduguri to identify the captives.
The prison was run along strictly hierarchical lines, down to a Teletubbies-like uniform colour scheme which allowed jailers and captives alike to recognise each detainee's place in the pecking order.
Many of the retreating militants have murdered their so-called "wives" – the women and girls they held as slaves – and other captives as military offensives by Nigeria and its neighbours advanced, al-Hussein said.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.37pm BST14:37 Rebels'interrogationof' of captives in Aleppo Our colleague Mona Mahmood has been studying the video of Aleppo clan leader Zaino Berri in captivity (see earlier post).
The BBC's new docu-drama series, Armada, opened last night with visual reenactments of all the hoary tropes of Elizabethan storytelling: a beleaguered isle, led by a vacillating queen; plucky English sailors knocking together a flotilla from the few planks of driftwood and some Vaseline; wordless, faceless Spaniards, bearing down with dark crucifixes upon their captives as instruments of torture.
She became very ill and months later eventually persuaded her captives to allow her to receive treatment at a Kenyan hospital.
Late on Sunday, Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, told CNN "it looked like [one of the captives] was going to be let out of the country, escorted toward the airport and then many officials changed their minds".
Masri added that the captives "admitted carrying out killing operations in Syria and some of them acknowledged that they committed a grave mistake by believing that they were fulfilling a jihadist [duty] against an international conspiracy" aimed at strife-stricken Syria.
