Where is the ammunition?
Where is the ammunition?’ “These boys were aged only eleven and thirteen. The children were shrieking and shouting. I was saying, ‘Look over all my house I have nothing!’ But they kept asking this, as the children screamed.” The US soldiers searched the house, but only found two weapons, both of them registered with the authorities. The man was nevertheless arrested by the local Afghan forces, then days later released. This is just one of several incidents — and far from the most hair-raising — documented in a new 59-page report by New York-based Human Rights Watch about abuses by US forces operating in Afghanistan. (The most hair-raising incidents involve the use of full-on military tactics and deadly force for simple police work, such as apprehending civilians in peaceful neighborhoods.) We Americans are maintaining four detention centers in Afghanistan — at military bases at Bagram, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Asadabad — and Human Rights Watch says that this “US-administered system
