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The Salt Pit and Bagram: CIA Torture Sites in Afghanistan
from #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show · #265
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Tim describes the CIA black site known as the Salt Pit near Kabul, detailing torture methods used there and arguing this brutality explains why the U.S. lost Afghan hearts and minds.
- CIA swept up suspected terrorists and non-terrorists during the start of the Afghan war, sending them to Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Air Force Base, and the Salt Pit for interrogation.
- The Salt Pit was a CIA black site prison located north of Kabul in a former brick factory where detainees were tortured mercilessly.
- Torture methods included electric chair threats, waterboarding, beatings, and putting people in boxes with bugs crawling on them until they died.
- The torture didn't work and the U.S. lost the ground game in Afghanistan catastrophically—there was no will to fight for the country.
- The failure in Afghanistan sucks across the board for Afghans who expected a different life, soldiers whose deaths mean nothing, and aid workers who went over to do charity.
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