U.S. Defendants Try to Prove Collaboration
From Times Wire Reports
Three Americans accused of torturing prisoners at a private jail played videos at their trial showing an Afghan official pledging his full support to them and sending his security force on a raid with them.
The videos, and another showing North Atlantic Treaty Organization peacekeepers in a separate raid, were part of the defense’s effort to prove that the operation was backed by the Pentagon and Afghan officials and was not a rogue mission.
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