By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL, April 14 (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has urged the Afghan military, foreign troops and Taliban insurgents to spare civilians during combat, the organisation’s global chief said on Monday.
Jakob Kellenberger also said suspected Taliban prisoners held by the U. S. military at Bagram were concerned about their fate [...]
From Cageprisoners…
Frank and his son, John, in New York City. Courtesy of Frank Lindh.
In an exclusive interview with Cageprisoners, the father of John Walker Lindh, Frank Lindh, discusses his son’s story. John Lindh, an American Muslim convert, was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001. Northern Alliance and US forces subsequently subjected Lindh to inhumane treatment [...]
British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who converted to Islam after being captured by the Taliban, tells Asma Hanif that
oppression of Muslim women has to do with traditions rather than with Islam and explains why she became a Muslim.
It was Yvonne’s camera that betrayed her to the Taliban in September 2001, landing her in an Afghan cell [...]
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