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TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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"Go and kick them in the leg" if they do this and they do that."
But the higher-ups said, "In order to get control of them, that's an option what you can use."
[Pfc. Willie Brand, Military Police, Bagram] It's just your knee going into the side of their thigh about mid-way up. There's supposed to be a pressure point right there. And it controls them really easy.
[Colonel David Hayden] Over two days, everybody's hitting you in the legs, it can cause some severe problems.
[Tim Golden, New York Times Reporter] Throughout the investigation, and even in the trials, a lot of the guards and interrogators described Dilawar as a very combative detainee, as a tough character, and that's just never been reconciled with all the other evidence that there was about this guy.
He weighed 122 pounds when he died.
The men who had been passengers in Dilawar's taxi told us later that he had just been absolutely terrified at Bagram. That they heard him through the walls of the isolation cells screaming for his mother and father.
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