Afghanistan
Ghani expresses shock over U.S. Senate report
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday that he was astounded by the new revelations of CIA torture in Afghanistan and elsewhere that were revealed by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report released on Tuesday (NYT, RFE/RL). Speaking at a news conference in Kabul, Ghani said: “The report shows that the principles of human rights, as well as the Constitution of the United States and universally accepted ethics, had been violated by the CIA and its contractors.” He was careful to point out that the abuses listed in the report were …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
