The N. Alliance definitely wins the abuse awards for packing Taliban into trucks and letting them suffocate. Those Al Qaeda (if that's who they ARE, we're going on limited information of course) seem pretty ridiculously restrained, looks like they packed them up in a Ryder van for shipping with all the webbing and restraints.
I don't think it's terribly cruel and unusual, how else are you supposed to transport particularly dangerous POWs. The Taliban who were finally released from Guantanamo said they were not mistreated at all, which is a testament to our armed services.
There is a reason we have the Geneva Convention (though the US has some wacky self-policy on certain issues of international arms) and I don't think it's exactly fair to blame every Taliban fighter for killing Americans. Many of those held in Cuba were not guilty of even firing a shot at US soldiers, or participating in combat. But overall I think the treatment of the Taliban/Al Qaeda we captured was pretty decent considering the circumstances.
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