Abdul Wahid (Bagram captive)

Abdul Wahid was a citizen of Afghanistan whose autopsy was held in the United States's Bagram Theater detention facility.cite news
url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-05-23-death-probe_x.htm
title=9 U.S. prison deaths probed as homicides
date=May 23 2004
publisher=USA Today
accessdate=2007-09-13] cite news
url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/22/iraq.abuse/index.html
title=Pentagon details prison deaths
publisher=CNN
date=May 22 2004
accessdate=2007-09-13] cite web
url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/507284_Tables
title=Medical Investigations of Homicides of Prisoners of War in Iraq and Afghanistan
publisher=Medscape
accessdate=2007-09-13] cite web
url=http://hrw.org/reports/2004/usa0604/4.htm
title=Afghanistan: Impunity for Systematic Abuse
publisher=Human Rights Watch
accessdate=2007-09-13] He was beaten to death on November 6, 2003.cite news
url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040704/news_1n4afghan.html
title=U.S. military investigating new allegation of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan
publisher=San Diego Union Tribune
author=Stephen Graham
date=July 4 2004
accessdate=2007-09-14] cite news
title=Abuse by Afghan militias reported
date=July 5 2004
author=Noor Khan
publisher=Seattle Post Intelligencer
accessdate=2007-09-14
url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001972111_afghanabuse05.html]

Army pathologist
Colonel
Kathleen Ingwersen concluded his death was a homicide. She wrote on his death certificate that he died from: "'"Multiple blunt force injuries complicated by probable rhabdomyolysis [extensive crush injuries of the muscles] ."cite web
url=http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/3171.pdf
title=Autopsy report
publisher=American Civil Liberties Union
accessdate=2007-09-13]

Abdul Wahid's cousin Abdul Haleem reported that he was also apprehended, and tortured, on November 3 2003.He and Abdul Wahid's father attributed the abuse to Afghan soldiers, but said American soldiers were aware of the abuse, and didn't intervene.

Abdul Wahid's father said he his heavily scarred body was returned to his family two months after his capture, together with a letter from US authorities. According to the "Associated Press":quotation
He said the letter — which a local doctor translated for him — expressed regret over the death but said Wahid had died before the United States had "got him." The U.S. military could not verify this information.

Human Rights worker John Sifton, of Human Rights Watch, told the "Associated Press" that corrupt security officials in Afghanistan routinely captured men, and threatened to hand them over to the US in return for a bounty, unless they paid a bribe.

ee also

*Dilawar (human rights victim)
*Habibullah

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