I was one of the Taliban's torturers: I crucified people
A Pakistani Muslim demonstrator sets fire to an effigy of President Bush during an anti-American rally in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 30, 2001. Pakistan said on Saturday it planned more talks with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to try to persuade them t
Editor's Note: In an astonishing and graphic interview with Christina Lamb, the Afghan leader's former bodyguard reveals the full brutality of the Islamic regime sheltering Osama bin Laden"YOU must become so notorious for bad things that when you come into an area people will tremble in their sandals. Anyone can do beatings and starve people. I want your unit to find new ways of torture so terrible that the screams will frighten even crows from their nests and if the person survives he will never again have a night's sleep."
These were the instructions of the commandant of the Afghan secret police to his new recruits. For more than three years one of those recruits, Hafiz Sadiqulla Hassani, ruthlessly carried out his orders. But sickened by the atrocities that he was forced to commit, last week he defected to Pakistan, joining a growing number of Taliban officials who are escaping...
