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Editorial If BGB men were involved, they must be punished We are appalled by the news of a journalist—Jahangir Alam Shahin—being assaulted and tortured allegedly by BGB men in Kulaghat while he was trying to get information on incidents of drug smuggling in the area. According to Jahangir Alam, he had gone to Kulaghat area in Lalmonirhat with a local named Sohag to report on drug smuggling at 11:30 pm on Thursday, April 15. He was talking to some BGB men when the Camp Commander came and started assaulting him and Sohag. Jahangir says that the BGB men took both of them to the camp and beat...

They had details of fathers, villages, whatever. >> reporter: they depicted him as the start of isis, saying it was a management school for isis leaders. quote, if there was no american prison in iraq there would be no islamic state now. >> most of the senior leadership and probably a good portion of the mid-level management and foot soldiers came from there. tens of thousands of people were held there over the years. so just -- when they got out they had had little to do and they had these established networks. it is clear that they had done their home work in the prison. >> and as he left, a...

Segregated. essentially allowed to meet freely, to plot. and they had an ingenious way of communicating. >> they were able to write their contact details on the white elastic of their boxer shorts, prison-issued boxer shorts. they networked. they had phone numbers, details of fathers, villages, uncles, whatev whatever. >> reporter: he said it was the incubator of isis. if there was no american prison in iraq, there would be no islamic state now. >> most of the senior leadership and probably a good portion of the mid level management and foot soldiers came from bucca. because tens of thousands ...

Bottom of three steep mountains. soldiers had been fatally attacked there before. in 2007, private chris pfeiffer. in 2008, camp commander captain rob yeskis. and near there a different camp commander, captain tom boss tick. as lethal as its position was the outpost's terrain. the camp was named for lieutenant ben keating, killed when his truck rolled over the treacherous side of the road leading to the camp. >> i knew it was a bad spot, and i knew that previous commanders had expired there. but to sit there and dig up every little detail on it, you know, it just -- it wasn't healthy for the g...

Bombing at all? >> put simply, we don't know for sure. but there are many who believe he was. the scottish authorities as you said earlier want to talk to him about it. and there are several people here on capitol hill who say that the u.s. authorities should also talk to him as quickly as they can about the bombing of panam flight 103. he was a former intelligence head in libya. but not at the time of the bombing. he didn't take that position until 1994. but he has been at colonel qaddafi's right hand for 30 years. so a lot of people want to know exactly what he knows about that particular te...