- Jamal Nasser
Jamal Nasser (b. circa 1985, d.
March 16 2003 ) was an Afghan soldier who died inUnited States ' custody onMarch 16 2003 .cite news
url=http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200410/100104C.html
title= Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On Abuse of Foreign Detainees
publisher=United States Senate
author=Patrick Leahy
date=October 1 ,2004
accessdate=2008-01-29] cite news
url=http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Showcase.view&showcaseid=0060
title=Independent reporting drew Army coverup, secrecy, delays
publisher=Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
author=Craig Pyes
date=March 2 ,2007
accessdate=2008-01-29] cite news
url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/23/world/main637823.shtml
title=New Probe Of Detainee Death: U.S. Troops Eyed In Allegations Of Torture Of Afghan Soldiers
publisher=CBS News
date=September 21 ,2004
accessdate=2008-01-29]In 2004, eighteen months after his death, when his death in custody was brought to the attention of American headquarters, his death was attributed to a kidney infection.Later, an investigation determined that the account of death by natural causes was a fiction, the result of collusion among the GIs in the Special Forces unit whose custody he was in when he died.After a two year investigation no one was held responsible for his death. However reprimands were filed in the dossiers of several GIs for the failure to report his death.
enator Patrick Leahy's account
According to
SenatorPatrick Leahy : :Neimann Foundation for Journalism account
Craig Pyes , one of the two "LA Times" reporters who broke the story, described the process of researching the story for theNeiman Report , the publication of theNeiman Foundation for Journalism .Pyes wrote that he and his colleague,Kevin Sack , decided to conduct a parallel investigation to the Army's official investigation. He wrote they interviewed more than 100 individuals.*They found that Jamal Nasser in the custody of a unit known as
ODA 2021 , at an American firebase inGardez .
*Nasser was captured with seven other Afghan soldiers, who described being beaten for seventeen days.
*Nasser's brother, a member of the Afghan squad, had one of his toe-nails pried off by his American interrogators.
*The Afghans had their clothes doused with glacial meltwater, and were then left outside all night in freezing cold weather.References
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