U.S. military beat, threaten to kill Afghan journalist (and then lie about it)

"Mr. Mudassir said a force of more than two dozen Americans carried out the raid, ransacking his premises and damaging much of the broadcasting equipment, as well as seizing computers, phones and recording gear. "They even put that black hood over my head and slapped me and beat me," he said. "They treated us inhumanely even though we were very pro their presence, and pro-government," Mr. Mudassir said. He said that he had been taken to the United States Army's Special Forces base in Logar and held overnight, and that interrogators had tried to get him to identify photographs of people suspected of being insurgents. "They said, 'You better tell the truth because you know if we want to kill you we can.' " "