The Scotsman
Jerome Starkey in KabulA MAN accused of helping terrorists storm a UN guesthouse in Kabul has died in the custody of Afghanistan’s secret police.
Intelligence officials said the man committed suicide by smashing his head through a window and leaping from a building.

The country’s top spymaster has denied claims prisoners are tortured, but he admitted interrogations are “tense”.

“No torture is taking place,” Amrullah Saleh said in a rare interview last year. “However… interrogation is not like speaking to a guest over dinner, it is a very tense atmosphere. Do they call that torture? I don’t know.” (Read more)