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Five lost and torturous years.

31 March, 2008 (16:14) | War

Five years of an innocent man’s life wasted in all for a $3000 bounty paid to Pakistan forces. See what has wrought.

At the age of 19, vanished into America’s in the . He was from , traveling in , and was picked up three months after 9/11. But there seemed to be ample evidence that Kurnaz was an innocent man with no connection to terrorism. The FBI thought so, thought so, and agreed. But once he was picked up, Kurnaz found himself in a prison system that required and .

The story Kurnaz told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley is a rare look inside that clandestine system of justice, where the government’s own secret files reveal that an innocent man lost his liberty, his dignity, his identity, and ultimately five years of his life.

via C&L

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