CNN's Nic Robertson goes inside an abandoned US air base now under Taliban control and the notorious prison that once held thousands of detainees. #CNN #News
We can't build housing for low-income people in the United States. But we willingly abandoned billions of dollars of housing for a new regime in another country? Awesome
We have hundreds of boarded up military bases across America (BRAC) that can be repurposed the get the homeless off the street. The VA can open up branches on these facilities to tend to their physical and mental health. We need to stop wasting money on the defense industry and repurpose that money into Americans. If we can't fix them and put them back into society, we can at least take care of them. Get them off the streets.
How many American soldiers were tortured or killed by the TALIBAN OR ISIS? How many women have been tortured, abused or killed by the TALIBAN OR ISIS? HOW many journalists or other people were beheaded by ISIL IN SYRIA LEBANON,, OR OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES?? I THINK THEIR WAS AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST WHO WAS CAPTURED AND BEHEADED TOO...DAVID FOLEY.
@@cathyomara7661 how many Afghanis were tortured by the U.S how many crimes against humanity have occured I'm the middle east. Oh right lemme guess, you justify the recent bombing of 7 innocent children.
Bouslama Karim - do you even live in the USA? SO, you found out all there is to know from the fake and propaganda broadcasted on social media and FOX NEWS, SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA & NEWSMAX??!! THOSE CHANNELS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN BIG JOKES AND PROPAGANDA. THEIR FILM TEAMS MAKE UP AND FIX VIDEOS AS THEY PMEASE BY ADDING WORDS TO STATEMENTS MADE BY ANY POLITICAL T PERSON THEY DO DO NOT LIKEAND PRESIDENT BIDEN TURNS OUT TO BE THEIR SCAPEGOAT FOR THEIR JOKES!!!
Commiting war crimes enmass and not following the Geneva convention. Torturing people like animals. Killing hundreds snd thousands of innocent civillians. That's why! Also done in Iraq, Vietnam and many other places! No one has the right to be judge, jury and executioner!
@@belisarius2776 where do we even begin! For a nation to proclaim noble values such as freedom, liberty, democracy, rule of law, bla bla bla, while bringing utter & ruthless destruction to other nations...but i admire how you guys are able to just ignore little things like reality, empirical facts & evidence to paddle fake narratives.
@@dorishofmann3907 More and more Americans are getting homeless. Yet, Trillions were spent in these wars. Iraq war that massacred a million was based on lies of WMD. U.S infrastructure is crumbling, yet all that money spent, lives lost, thousands tortured for what ?
Imagine if someone invaded the U.S. and was doing this to us. It's easy to lose perspective, to forget that the "enemy" is always human. It's not hard to see why the Taliban was able to reclaim the country.
Can’t classify Taliban as human. They are a brutal, backward, murderous gang who will ensure Afghanistan slips further into the Dark Ages. They are in power simply because they will kill anyone who stands up to them.
Really... you have no idea what you are saying... Please present proof.. it's easy to accuse.. others but hard to validate your claims.. so don;t say things that you can't prove..
Taliban:"we should destroy it so no evil person can use it again" Reporter:"they gained something of great value" See how different our views on on what's really valuable.
This prison should be preserved to show the abuse of human rights perpetrated by a country that swears on preseving those rights and fights wars to preserve those rights. This prison should be compared with the NAZI Concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau.
Guys, you’re repeating Taliban propaganda talking points. Do you not find it suspect at all that this is where they “allowed” the news team to go at the air base? U.S definitely isn’t perfect but try to think about who you all are siding with on this particular issue
@@KHDSrinagar Shame on those people! They eat butter on toast and dont even eat the crust! There's something wrong with this wicked breakfast culture. If we just all intermediate fasted twice a month we could get rid of all the worlds problems. I know 2+2 sometimes has to equal 4, but i just want to tell you that i believe in divergent multiplication additives too... and i pray that one day it could be pie. Sometimes i ask myself ... What would Einstein do, and then i read comments like yours and im reminded at my own mortality. I hope the stupid people can wake up like you and realize the errors in their ways so we can just have a better life already! Amen and Ketchup! Sincerely, Jones Jim Johnson of the 2300 block also known as Mustard Milk.
@Nate Brown yeah I guess your right but hey they didn’t drop bombs from the sky indiscriminately on children as a matter of fact you fellas killed 7 kids in a drone attack on a innocent family before youse left and said it was RIGHTEOUS, then said ah shit we’re sorry ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fjuQm7QcRc0.html
@@CQuinnLady There is a Memorial Tour Guide lasting 6 hours for Auschwitz now a museum, the world must also do the same for Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and this prison/US military base without a name.
Every Media must appreciate and respect the Taliban for their kind respect for media persons. Don't spread any wrong message about Taliban. Like Indian media do.
Guys, you’re repeating Taliban propaganda talking points here. Do you not find it suspect at all that this is where they “allowed” the news team to go at the air base? U.S definitely isn’t perfect but try to think about who you all are siding with on this particular issue. We’re not always right but the Taliban are hundreds of years behind on human rights issues
@@colbylacefield796 What talking points? The journalist was walking around an airbase known worldwide for its prison and hosting of POWs. Was there something else to see? If so, maybe the CIA should show us the missing footage of rest of the base, since apparently Taliban already saw it, and are hiding it from us, according to you. Lol. LMAO.
Well we r are having our own civil wars goin on.but we don't know what crimes they committed.but for the taliban to say they got the victory or the forced us out is COMPLETE bs.cuz if we went back they would run FAST
@@anthonybautista3585 you people are so shameless and hypocrite. But one thing is for sure your reign is coming to an end and that is a good thing for the world
NATO was torturing innocent Afghans inside that Air Base. The moral value of the western Nations has declined to zero in the last 20 years over their actions in Afghanistan Iraq and in Syria.
*To begin with, they never had moral value in the first place and thus their enmity and hatred were quite visible the moment they invaded a country that has nothing to do with the 9/11*
When even the Taliban says "It should be destroyed so brutal people cannot use it again" ... It's time for Americans to do some soul searching. Freedom and Democracy ... Indeed🙄
Are you that foolish and naive? This is CNN's attempt to make Bidens screw up seem to be some type of blessing in the end. Poor poor taliban an you fall for it. 🙄
Many innocent civilian without caught in any case were prisoners in this prison. This was human right that the US went to give us in our country. We do not want any country to make or take any decision in our country.
My father American and afghan army catch that you are taliban but my father never work with taliban and always shopkeeper now we have received my father aftet 9 year god bless evry country
"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism." Carl Bernstein
@William Cunningham what freedom? only the top 1% gets the real freedom, just barking dogs for them if u insist on being one dimensional, go study up... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gYR92KjKxm8.html
@William Cunningham Sarcasm translates poorly in writing. Yeah, All the Press have shown their true colors and I will remember it all until the day I die. The Forth Estate is dead and the Far Left Media killed it.
Usually people that are doing random killing are being locked off or get death penalty(in every single country in the world). Do not believe that political oponents were imprisoned. Believe that people doing killing or planning on terrorist's attacks/planning killing were imprisoned. What kind of BS you are talking about. Lets wait for 6 months and see the famine in that country. Lets wait several years and see if there would be more people than now craving for the stability, safety, democratic freedom.. you know- the basic human rights that Afghanistan enjoyed to some degree for past 20 years.
The barbarism of US NATO are portrayed in a heroic manner as saviors of people, and taliban, iraqis vietnamese who fought the occupiers are shown as deadly terrorist ! You reap what you sow , isn't this applicable to West ?
Did you say human rights? Check the video of prison US left when they escaped from airport... Or Guantanamo, or even "ordinary" prisons and sentences in US. Rich can do whatever they want, poor and black overpay for every little thing. It is ending...fortunately.
@@rickcorral9974 i agree its got nothin to do with race. But your sarcasm in your first statement indicates that the western nations do not need a lesson in human rights...moreso from the TALIBAN. My friend you know only what you've been shown by your media...and BTW the most brutal infringements of human rights have been by western nations pushing their policies. But coz they sign a document of mass death wearing a suit and tie...its seen "official"...pure terrorists
@tim tores keep on doing propaganda Your propaganda has destroyed many countries such as Iraq. You lied about Iraq, killed millions of their people. Don't you have any guilt inside you? You are still instigating 1st world countries to kill more people. Shame on people like you.
So how are you supposed to interrogate and get Info out from an enemy without torturing? With their kind of faith, I highly doubt a carrot will work, but a stick will somehow do the trick.
If you require torture, bombs, drones and tanks to convince a population that short skirts, bikinis and pornography is the truth. Then you've given them every reason to reject your way of life.
Yeah, rape, acid in the face, or stoning is so much more civil than those evil western ideals. The women and girls in Afghanistan got it so much better now.
@Jasmine Because a couple of short months ago, the U.S. was doing just that with our taxpayer money, my sweet little jasmine rose. It takes more than one person to do that, but just one idiot by the name of Biden to bring it all down.
I spent 4 years working mostly at Bagram (2008 to 2012) as a contractor. The U.S. built a city there. I hardly ever felt in danger due to the level of security surrounding the base. I worked with people from all around the world. It is an experience I will never forget.
You guys never took Afghanistan or kabul, like Russians are taking Bhakmut or Mariupol. You guys simply dont have the stomoch for it. No wonder you want Ukranians to fight the Russians for you.
@@richardv9648 we annihilated the Taliban, don't act brave now, when our soldiers were there you were cowards in caves, hiding behind innocent children and woman
I once heard someone say that Americans love and/or condone War because their wars are never fought in their own land. Not once did I hear the interviers in studio discuss how the US treated the prisoners in dank crowded spaces with little to eat and how that that might've caused prisoners to have mental health issues and I really need clarity on the use of a man-sized net in the 'clinic'. I'm not condoning the actions of that caused them to be put in prison but living in artificial light, in a crowded space for years, no adequate food and being showered with water at random is not a good look for the "great" US. All the people in the studio cared about was that the Taliban has got so much architecture and resources left behind by the exit of the army and not the millions that died in on both sides when an international powerhouse decided to wage an unjustified war ."Go USA" !! Nizobona, In a few years when the heat dies down, Hollywood will make a white savior movie retelling the whole saga and it'll get millions in the box office and no one will ever account for what happened and all those deaths
It's called war.. I love how everyone wants to talk about the U.S but the Islamic world isn't any better. And are you even American? I don't know how you bunch us in opinions you know nothing about. That's like me saying Africa will never prosper because you guys stab each other in the back for money. It's a common occurrence.
Due let you have study very well haven't you let is very head to China have Russia have try it many more asked you. Were not Afton we don't head our keys over. There is reason why Amanda is power country in would. We are 30 invite of every country even Russia chaia
@@mickeyray3793 it’s a very well known fact the taliban don’t kill their prisoners or torture them especially foreigners as it goes against their faith which they are so stuck to
@@thejamaicanpolak3988 if US don’t invade and occupy illegally other countries there will be no angry Muslim !! If somebody invade your house what will you do ?? You just protecting USA because you an American !! You can’t tell the truth although you know what is truth ! American government is a Terrorist Country and all the world know this now !! American people are very good and Kind people
We waisted a lot of resources on that B.S., time we spend our time and energy doing productive activities. Why don't we crack down on Real Estate fraud which is rampant in the U.S.
@@soylentgreen9492 sure do that to, but criminal politicians get a lot of money from Real estate. If we crack down on Real estate we'll get most of the illegal activities in the U.S., sounds like a big claim but the issue is that big.
Okay, two minutes into the video and I already have three questions. If the prisoners have been out of the prison since 2014, why is it being presented as if it being empty is part of the Taliban takeover? Why does the "prisoner's food" shown look like it is at most a few weeks old? And the biggest question: if there are supposed to be hundreds of American citizens still trapped in Afghanistan, how do all these American reporters keep going back and forth in and out of the country to make these reports?
Good question. Why leave hundreds of Americans behind while reporters fly away with how many empty seats? They don't want logic ruining their propaganda video though. Just watch and rage about how awful our country is.
This is Bagram airfield. Americans had left it just before Taliban’s takeover. Even previous Afghanistan government had no clue that Bagram airfield was abandoned. Americans left at night without letting anyone know. But then with the arrival of taliban, all the prisoners were freed. As for the American reporters, taliban allow reporters to come in and go out. They are reporters and taliban do not hold reporters as enemies
Because the taliban are pushing propaganda by allowing reporters in. They can then present a select narrative to play victims to the monstrous Americans. It’s all a sick joke really.
And you wonder about hostility toward the United States. And there is good chance that the people the U.S. supporting (the Afghan government) was doing much worse to people..
The USA and its allies signed a contract in 2020 with the Taliban to let the Taliban free in Afghanistan. Therefore, we are to blame for every single person affected by this crisis today.
The majority of people in the US didn’t want the war to keep going. Most of us wanted out. It’s how we got out that’s the issue. People died that shouldn’t have died. Plain and simple.
@Mind Farmer go back and read your history book. Who started the war in Afghanistan? The BUSH/CHENEY ADMINISTRATION IN RETALIATION FOR 9/11/01!!! THE COUNTRIES WHERE SOLDIERS WERE SENT WAS AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ & SYRIA.
Man's inhumanity to man has been going on since the first murder. It is the temporary madness of the absence of self controlled. While a woman is the giver of life, a man is the taker of life for lack of wisdom to chose peace.
@@cathyomara7661 Actually, no. That war was almost over and the reality is that it was a civil war Where the Taliban just about ready to rule that whole country as the Northern Alliance was beat. We just postponed their ascent by 20 years and a few trillion dollars.
Have you ever seen prisons in South America, Central America, Turkey, Haiti, Africa, Russia, or Afghanistan? Do you really think this is Barbaric? This looked almost clinical, built within a warehouse that had A/C. These are erector jails, jails you can build in a jiffy to house enemies, people who were captured trying to kill us soldiers or people that were captured who were making, i.e.d. bombs. You didn't end up in this jail for doing nothing. If you found yourself in this jail, it was for a good reason.
@Temp Khi the only cleaning that needs to be done is that of the permanent removal of the taliban from Afghan soviety. I don't care how it's done. They have nothing to offer this world but pain and suffering and have brought nothing but misery to the Afghan people.
Every day for the last few months I've watched or read something and said to myself... 'That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen/heard!' Today this is it.
I always liked and loved Nic Robertson for his inclinations to the truth. He revealed many bitter truths about so many open secret matters. We need more journalists like him nowadays.
Yes, obviously. Because they swing all the time with the index finger. And fairs what is right and wrong. The stupidest thing is that what the United States calls Democracy is a totally corrupt 2 party system that the richest rule without competition!
@@relativelycivilized2786 the only ones getting mental illness from the "war" are the American soldiers and the Afghan people who lost faith in god from western ideology indoctrination 👌
@@orion9k meh they willingly came to a country on the orders to kill. They don't deserve sympathy. They deserve all the devine punishment in here and after also. Taliban were the ones really fighting for their lives on the lines with the biggest superpower.
I love how they are trying to send this message that look how bad America was and the bad things that we did when we were there why not point that camera outside of the prison and show us what's going on in all of Afghanistan or is that Fox News's job to do that and show the world what is really going on
What would happen outside.... (in USA) 1. if all your assets are frozen 2. if there is no significant food production for the past 20 years due to wars imposed by superpowers 3. If there is no power 4. If there is no clean water. 5. If there is no medicine. 6. If the superpowers have decided to freeze all aid to your country.. 7. And winter is here
CNN propaganda. Fake news! The prison was turned over to the Afghanistan Army many years ago. They are responsible for turning that place into a pigsty.
@@amolkhobaragade That is a question many Americans like to know... Why would Joe Biden pull the military out of Afghanistan before pulling it's American citizens first?
They will never want to show what they did with the afghan prisoners, look what sick acts the British soldiers did at Abu ghurab prison with the prisoner's, but no one talks about that any more becsuse they want people to forget the history of sick acts they did
Look how chummy CNN is with the Taliban war lords. I didn't see any torture chambers. CNN is there with our enemy trashing America and Britain. SICK and treasonous.
As a US Servicemember who actually worked at that detention facility? Detainees didn't experience any sort of struggle there. The conditions shown here are not representative of what they were when the US controlled the detention facility, a control that was eventually given to the Afghan government after 2015. We did not house "thousands" of prisoners at Camp Sabalu-Harrison, nor were they subjected to torture. The narrative being pushed here is exactly that, a narrative.
As I've said before in another clock these were not Prisoners of War soldiers are Prisoners of War they wear uniforms they don't pretend to be farmers shoot at you then pick up a shovel two Prisoners of War have a the bottle to wearing uniform there are terrorists and of and not covered under the Geneva Convention or really any other convention if they want to be treated like Prisoners of War then they should have wore a uniform stop trying to call them soldiers they are not soldiers do not use the word prisoner of war terrorist look it up see what the definition that means compare two Prisoners of War
Oh yeah we was at war with them and we will no doubt be in war again with them let's look at how mean we was to them the telaban is a whole different kind of animal they kill at will in horrible ways so i can't feel bad fer them sawing people's heads off with handsaws it was them that knocked our buildings. down and killed our people so no i don't feel one bit sorry fer them
At least, the soldiers didn't cut hands for theft...kill for personal grievances ...beat and kill women. It was a war, these Afghan men were soldiers and knew what to expect.
@@superspeedm It's not what appears in the documentary. Of course, lapidating as well as imprisonning innocent women both physically and psychologically and cutting limbs cannot be looked upon as torture...
@@nadinejammet7683 lapidating a cheater wife or husband, and cut hand of robber. Neither Robber nor cheaters nor kidnappers are innocent. They commited a crime and they know the punishment
Respect to CNN for revealing this. Although this should have been disclosed while it happened if the democracy was working. US democracy and human rights slogan has lost all credibility.
They should convert this into a Museum and show this side of the west to the world and the future generation. The USA ran from Afghanistan like a coward. History should never forget this.
I’ve taken in a lot of homeless Americans (including veterans) that would’ve loved to live in this housing. Instead, all this housing abandoned and left to rot. Not only disgusting, but disturbing. America, you’re sick.
Why is buddy talking about ISIS having this base like it’s a good thing? Lives lost in vain. So much for a plan for covid, let alone afghan withdrawal.
so a bunch of people were living there instead of on the street , noticed dust on a lot of the stuff on the floor , looked to me like no one had been in some rooms for months
Do this for our American prisons! Show the way we treat our own American citizens. Let’s see the difference. There isn’t much of one. Put some focus here at home.
Do you mean how they treat Black people in their jail system? Well, we know they declared war on black people since the 15th century, fight for your freedom bro, and never call that place home.
@@crispinfornoff206 are you referring to someone who is a graduate of one of the top colleges in the country? Someone who takes care of ailing people on a daily basis? Couldn’t be.
@@saadshoaib901 "Irony? People who fought for their freedom for 20 years are bad and the people who occupied looted destroyed the country are somehow better" uh, yes. Very much yes. It was no random reason that US forces invaded and occupied Afghanistan. And while America and their allies were there the Taliban were NOT free to project terror on the people. The Taliban while citizens of Afghanistan are not the majority, yet they force their values, beliefs and horrors on everyone. It took them a minute to once again subjugate the women of their country. You are a fool if you don't think public beheadings are far behind. Let them tour prisons where their barbaric terrorist friends were held and pretend to somehow hold the higher moral ground. The rest of the world knows who the Taliban are.
Actually the Talibans are not terrorists. They' re anti terrorists, especialyl against Al Kaida and Daesh. Do you think they would talk with Western journalists if they were terrorists ? Look at the situation in Irak / Syria a few years back. That were terrorists.
Poor Eric, how ignorant are you? seems you didn’t take in this reporting, the torture chambers that go on for hundreds of metres, you’re just sort of interested in what they can do with the cages, you sir are an exceptional American, duh they could re use the scrap metal, lol
@UnitedStates Enclave OFFICIAL just ignore what military industrial complex torture machine do to 3rd world countries, too gutless to invade Russia, China or North Korea.
@Eric, Well, you never know, those cages might turn out to be useful for them to house kidnapped westerners down the road. Only god knows what the Talibans have in store for the occupiers.
@@tonybarden9187 The Taliban does not need cages for prisoners. Public beheadings are the way of life there. Who needs prisons when you have a sharp axe or heavy sword? You see cages and you assume torture. I see cages and I assume we weren't just beheading people. I'd bet neither of us have been there and really know what happened, but from what I've read, the Taliban are NOT good people. And while I do know that there are some bad Americans, in general, we ARE good people. Tony, which are you? Good or bad? I'll be generous here and assume you are a good person. Have a nice day. PS - okay, it is a little funny that Eric sees the value in scrap metal. But we all bring our own perspectives to the conversation, right?
Another example of the media showing you what they want you to see. Ask Afghan woman and children if their lives are better after the withdrawal? They were safe when we were there. Now, they’ve lost all the rights it took 20 years to give them.
Seriously, have these morons never seen inside a prison before? They try to paint the USA as evil monsters who locked up innocent defenseless people. These were terrorists!
@@RW-kp3wr I know it's not an ordinary prison, but these savages didn't deserve to be treated humanly, these were terrorists and religious zealots who want to kill and destroy everything you care about because it conflicts with their phony baloney backwards world view.
@@RW-kp3wr Bingo, that's the point. Orange man and America bad. Joe and China good. You get the message. Please don't buy into it. We are still the greatest country in the world. She will remain so only when the this treasonist administration and its great supporter CNN go.
what's striking me the most is that the only thing you found is cells and a net...what is the evidence of "torture" exactly? Solitary? For ppl who want to cut off limbs as a form of government....??? are you joking?
@@saadiaarslanturk2850 and all the alternative sources say the same thing. Appologies it's not a hotel but what did you expect when they decided to join terrorist organizations? The Ritz?
