How a notorious US prison still haunts Afghanistan | The Take

Thousands of people were imprisoned for years without charge or trial by the United States during its so-called “war on terror”. Moazzam Begg was one of them. For the first time since he was detained more than 20 years ago, Begg returns with Al Jazeera to the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where he witnessed terrible abuses that continue to haunt him.
In this episode:
- Moazzam Begg, Former Bagram and Guantanamo Detainee
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Miranda Lin and Zaina Badr with Khaled Soltan, Chloe K. Li and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
Watch the full film ‘Echoes of Bagram’ by Al Jazeera Witness here: www.aljazeera.com/program/wit...
With special thanks to Horia El Hadad and Michael McEvoy.

[@ramatgan1]

What the US has done to Afghanistan can never be forgotten or forgiven.

[@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism]

What the US has done to the WORLD can never be forgotten or forgiven.

[@afzaalkhan.m]

Should never be forgiven thousands of innocent were murdered

[@abdulrahimnorzai9305]

😢

[@virdom4796]

AND NOT FORGET THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE WARCRIMES AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN IN GAZA 😭💔⚖️🇵🇸⚖️🇵🇸⚖️🇵🇸

[@chemophile14]

Champions of human right and champions of demoncrazy 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Falcon2609]

Exactly, America the land of hypocrisy.

[@abdullahsiraj3217]

Champions of the Talmud I what they are

[@vvorldnewsmedia]

The world is not safe as long as the USA is still standing

[@SBGDI]

Have you read the quran? Lol

[@abdullahsiraj3217]

@@SBGDI have you read the talmud?

[@MartinaNugent-yt8ig]

The west should stay out of the middle east🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@feenok3314]

and the middle east should stay out of the west

[@stavkaz1790]

Afganistan is not in the middle east

[@feenok3314]

@@stavkaz1790 In my mind it is

[@stavkaz1790]

@@feenok3314 “in my mind” is not how anything works. Stop placing you opinions in the fact column

[@feenok3314]

@@stavkaz1790 Ask anybody else :) Afghanistan = Middle east. Nobody gonna say they are asians LOL

[@donHooligan]

"The Mauritanian" is a full-length feature film about the prison in Guantanamo Bay. even partially redacted, it is horrific.

[@isthatrightdave]

downloading now, thanks for the tip!

[@ramongonzales2292]

There is no justice in this world

[@ctrl-del630]

There is justice in the world. It is just not coming from America.

[@TravelBandit]

That's why the Day of Judgement exists

[@Hkchinese888]

Same in Hong Kong

[@Hkchinese888]

@@ctrl-del630 In HK, it's against the national security law if you're found not singing the chyna national anthem in public, the max penalty is 5 year in jail. How about in America?

[@ctrl-del630]

​@@Hkchinese888 Are you saying that because one is not forced to sing the national anthem makes America the perfect country? Good luck with that Idea. Besides that..... Ask the people in Afghanistan what they hink about America, or the people in Syria, or Libia, or Serbia, Or Yugoslavia (a country that does not exist anymore), or Iran, or Iraq, or Kuwait. Do you want me to continue? Or did I make my point?

[@Arah90]

POWERFUL!

[@bekicot88]

No sanctions for US?

[@user-cp1wk6gv1j]

Very Painful memories

[@AqibAnwar-pw3lk]

The inhumane Americans😢

[@L_E_Y_D_Y]

Regular North Americans are not inhumane. It is those in power and even within those not all are monsters. There are ruthless monsters worldwide. We can not generalize people of a particular nation as inhumane. Sending love from 🇺🇸💖 and prayers for human rights violations to slowly ( because it wouldn’t happen quickly) diminish, so that justice is served.

[@AqibAnwar-pw3lk]

@@L_E_Y_D_Y I am sorry If I my words hurt you.

[@L_E_Y_D_Y]

@@AqibAnwar-pw3lk no, it takes a lot to hurt my feelings, believe me. I wouldn’t speak with such assertiveness without hurting someone back. When feelings and emotions take charge you go to “attack”, and rationale goes out the window. I’m not hurt. Sending love 💗

[@daveh5947]

Not surprised.

[@pizzazze1]

US gov action in Afghanistan should be investigated and leaders should be tried in court

[@rodgerasai]

Of course, being here in the land of the free - when I click on the link to the full video - I get a "404 page not found" message.

[@Zythus07]

I'm currently outside the US and it's the same here. Something probably happened to the original footage or post.

[@rambocobra5014]

FREE AFGANISTAN 🤲☝️❤🇦🇫❤

[@Kitty.pusheen]

🤍🤍🤍🤍 agreed!

[@menudobucket9837]

The link to ‘Echoes of Bagram’ was not found by my Safari browser. I can only imagine why.

[@akpewebiakolo7517]

So called war on Terror?😢

[@isthatrightdave]

should have said war of terror.

[@akpewebiakolo7517]

@@isthatrightdave do you condemn 9/11?

[@isthatrightdave]

obviously..3k ppl died

[@Dominic_Amoe]

It is indeed "so called" It was entirely based on lies.

[@vvorldnewsmedia]

The world is not safe as long as the USA is still standing

[@brierestjean1977]

Thanks

[@abdugofur3782]

Thank ❤❤❤

[@lionelramsal7354]

Very interesting. Mr Lionel Ramsal🟥

[@menudobucket9837]

This is the same kind of treatment that Israel is dishing out to Palestinians. Who learned this from whom?

[@vvorldnewsmedia]

The world is not safe as long as the USA is still standing

[@shortsking6471]

Yet they lecture us on human rights

[@lp64aho38]

Never forget Guantanamo

[@vvorldnewsmedia]

The world is not safe as long as the USA is still standing

[@tariqnazeer31]

كما أطلب منك إنشاء قناة باللغة الأردية أو الهندية

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

Urdu and Hindi are the most horrible to the ears for 80% of the planet m

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

English is not so difficult to learn.

[@tariqnazeer31]

@@synaestesia-bg3ew It is not difficult to speak English, but I do not know it completely. We have been speaking Hindi and Urdu since childhood, so it seems easy to us.

[@name_dropper8112]

Arabic is the superior language, no need for toilet slave language.

[@tariqnazeer31]

@@name_dropper8112 The best languages in the world are our Urdu and Hindi. Arabic is also a good language and our Quran is in Arabic, that is why we respect it.

[@naymatunc-rc6vs]

The state of kaos-usa

[@vvorldnewsmedia]

The world is not safe as long as the USA is still standing

[@stanfordphillips6792]

Nutting new about the ox of evil, god will judge this evil force.

[@ragibalam2626]

التماس بکم ان تقیمو قناۃ فی الاردیہ

[@mohammadakter6370]

FREE Aafia...! FREE Aafia...! FREE Aafia..!!

[@friendsgroup470]

Pakistani st

[@Hkchinese888]

It's better than the cubicle rooms in Hong Kong, dude

[@pluribus_unum]

An impoverished autocracy [is] what the Taliban are making Afghanistan. The Pentagon has engendered another Khmer Rouge situation.

[@desmondburnett9286]

know your history. Early education in the American colonies had a religious purpose. Schools existed to train boys to be clergymen. Consequently, the education of women was not a priority. Most colonial town schools did not admit women until the nineteenth century, although Boston public schools admitted some girls in 1789. When girls were finally permitted to attend town schools, they attended at a different time

[@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism]

You need to go back further, to learn far worse.

[@chasingcapsaicin]

dead link

[@menudobucket9837]

16:40 ~ “If they didn’t like the Taliban, they shouldn’t have invaded this country..”; but the fact is that they DID like the Taliban. Saying that they didn’t was just an excuse to provide legitimacy for the invasion.

[@tanujSE]

These are practice of army or police

[@tariqnazeer31]

Main bhi apko ek Urdu mein channel banane ki guzarish karta hoo

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

Urdu is horrible

[@tariqnazeer31]

@@synaestesia-bg3ew Urdu is very easy doesn't difficult

[@harjotsinghbrar5372]

@@tariqnazeer31bakwaas boli aa Urdu . Hindi Urdu beedi peene paan khaane te mehbooba de kol Rehn wale mirza ghalib vrge ghatiya lokan de language aa

[@tariqnazeer31]

@@harjotsinghbrar5372 apko hindi ya Urdu bolne hee nahi aati hai isiliye aap itna ghatiya andaz mein likhe hai nahi to duniya ki best of language Urdu & hindi

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

@@tariqnazeer31 it is sound pollution and disrespectful on KZbin, when the video title is in English while people speak only Urdu or Hindi.

[@FahimAzimi1988]

My question from this guy an a person from Afghanistan is, why would you go to Afghanistan to build schools while Pakistan itself needed thousands of school and millions were in needed of help at that time? Yes, there were some people whom was detained wrongly, but I don’t see that in this guy. I have heard many of his talks and they don’t add up. Over the past decades Pakistan governments has never been helpful to Afghans and they have always wanted a weak and consumer Afghanistan. They have taken $billions of money from U.S to let the NATO supply go through.

[@Chonobataar]

Probably because Pakistan's problems are entirely instituted by it's Corrupt Satelite government. It could end the poverty in Pakistan and industrialize into an incredibly economically powerful state, as rich as Germany at it's economic peak... but as with all nations, a corrupt ruling class, with a government government and a corrupt military with the masses too weak and lazy to do anything about it = failure.

[@shakirsohail1681]

Now you have problem with someone going to Afghanistan and helping them, pathetic,,

[@user-ry7ze3ny9k]

🙏🕍🖖👋👐🙌🤲

[@karimmoorad9649]

Democracy 😢

[@nishatkhan3615]

Why does the name of Pakistan always come up whenever a crime is committed?

[@arsalanshah8620]

Colony state to serve its masters BTW I am from Pakistan unfortunately

[@Muezza_my_cat]

C'mon man, you, I and the whole world know that the Taliban are Pakistani army.

[@ctrl-del630]

C'mon man !!!!!! Yeah, lets concentrate on that and completely ignore the rest of the story. You are American aren't you? Where were round about 2000 - 2002?

[@KptnBlowFly]

Who armed and supported in first place the mujahedeen to fight against Russia in the 80ties? If America wouldn't have started this totally getting out of hand so called war against terror the world would have been better off. Several peaceful countries with solid economies destroyed, millions of killed and misplaced. Great job. Just stay for God sake at home. When do you learn it to leave the world alone. We don't ask you for help.

[@Chonobataar]

Riiight.... is that why Pakistan allowed the US to base it's airstrikes from Peshawar US military base, repeatedly against the Taliban. The only people in Pakistan who gave support to the Taliban are the Pashtun tribes, who themselves are the Natives of Afghanistan.

[@user-ry7ze3ny9k]

😎😂🥺😅😆🤣

[@piratethreelawbreaker6739]

lies lies lies

[@abdulrahimnorzai9305]

As an afghan I can say it was worse

[@Muezza_my_cat]

Mohammad Al Afghani, I never heard any Afghan last name Al Afghani.

[@ashraf_jsr]

Many people never heard many things, so what? Muezza , is it your name,,, very scary"""

[@Chonobataar]

It was an Arabic title granted to him, among the Arabic speakers. Similar to Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani. A persian who lived in Afghanistan and became "Pashtunized".

[@tumix671]

Moazzam says he took his family to Afghanistan to try to establish a school for both boys and girls, which would be impossible under the Taliban. It's more like he sympathized with them, and his choice to reside under their rule put him at risk of being interrogated and tortured by the Americans. In light of global terrorism by Muslim extremists, I have no sympathy towards individuals who choose to reside in a country that prohibits education for women and girls. None whatsoever.

[@desmondburnett9286]

Early education in the American colonies had a religious purpose. Schools existed to train boys to be clergymen. Consequently, the education of women was not a priority. Most colonial town schools did not admit women until the nineteenth century, although Boston public schools admitted some girls in 1789. When girls were finally permitted to attend town schools, they attended at

[@tumix671]

@@desmondburnett9286 Mind you, that was almost three centuries ago, which means the Taliban has a lot of catching up to do. At least they have wifi so hopefully that'll help.

[@desmondburnett9286]

@@tumix671 Puritans banned a number of things. Among them, they banned Christmas, gambling, dressing in clothes that were considered ''fancy,'' smoking, and living with Native Americans. Moreover, they punished certain offences, such as adultery, by death.

[@Chonobataar]

Incorrect. The Taliban allowed schools for boys and girls, they just had to be segregated to maintain integrity and avoid the many problems that we see in the West, like 12 year old girls, having kids and living on welfare for the rest of their lives.

[@Unstoppable190]

Shame on war criminals US ,UK.....

[@LewisNuke92]

Cry harder

[@user-gi9qu1bl5v]

​@@LewisNuke92poo harder 😂😂

[@LewisNuke92]

@@user-gi9qu1bl5v I had one this morning and it slipped out like butter. Thanks for your concern though!

[@newsubcriber65887]

Osama bin Laden

[@Chonobataar]

Tim Osman, CIA Asset in Bosnia.

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🥷💪✊🤝👊👍👏

[@aliandrews1103]

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