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TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

[Narrator]  The Army Coroner who examined Dilawar discovered massive tissue damage in his legs.

She later testified that his legs had been pulpified. 

But what could have caused that kind of damage?

[Colonel David Hayden]  This is not a hotel.

This is not a place for them to get fat, lazy and happy.

[Narrator]  In a videotape that surfaced as part of the homicide investigation, Colonel David Hayden, the top Army lawyer for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, described a policy of shackling and striking detainees.

[Colonel David Hayden]  There was an approved technique for the MPs when somebody was a difficult prisoner that you could hit them on the legs.  It was supposedly considered not a lethal blow.

[Sgt. Thomas Curtis, Military Police, Bagram] I didn't actually hear a higher-up say ...

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