At the time of Cleghorn's birth, the Apache people had been prisoners of the U.S. government since the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, but, when she was four years old, they were released from their prisoner-of-war status.
This was once S-21, a secret interrogation centre where Khmer Rouge cadres, many no more than children, used torture to extract insane, florid confessions from their prisoners, who were then driven out of the city to the killing fields.
Reflecting the cold humor commonly used by torturers to disassociate themselves from their prisoners, Zhou said that interrogators who forced feces and urine into suspects' mouths referred to the mixture as "Eight Treasures Porridge," a popular Chinese breakfast.
Armed with the knowledge gained from their prisoners, Alvarado sent 40 men to cover the exit from the cave and launched another assault along the ravine from the west, in single file owing to its narrowness, with crossbowmen alternating with soldiers bearing muskets, each with a companion sheltering him from arrows and stones with a shield.
His reputation among the unpaid and dissenting military took a dive; and many criticized him for appropriating the entire ransom that the Russians paid for their prisoners from Połonka.
Along with some other journalists, I followed them, our idea being to prevent the soldiers from executing their prisoners.
In addition, we collected data from the prisoners about their prisoner status and sentencing and their self-perceived somatic and mental health status.
The Americans have quietly pledged not to move forward without the Afghan government's benediction, so previous efforts to build confidence with the Taliban by releasing some of their prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay prison camp are on hold, although the Americans retain the right to consider a prisoner release for strategic reasons of their own.
The Kurdish officials told me that they learned a lot about Abu Wa'el's movements from one of their prisoners, an Iraqi intelligence officer named Qassem Hussein Muhammad, and they invited me to speak with him.
One of the questions that will be explored at any trial, however, is why a group of Army Reserve military policemen, most of them from small towns, tormented their prisoners as they did, in a manner that was especially humiliating for Iraqi men.
