ICC prosecutor: US forces may have tortured in Afghanistan

International Criminal Court prosecutors say that a preliminary probe indicates that members of the United States armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan.
The prosecution office said in a report issued late Monday that U.S. armed forces personnel “appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture” in Afghanistan, mainly in 2003-2004. Specifically, the report alleges the accused “resorted to techniques amounting