Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

Directors

Alex Gibney

Cast

Brian Keith Allen, Greg D'Agostino, Maan Kaassamani, Karyn Plonsky

The story

The documentary concerns the death of Dilawar, an Afghan peanut farmer, who gave up farming to become a taxi driver and who died after several days of beating at Bagram detention center. Dilawar left his home of Yakubi in eastern Afghanistan in the autumn of 2002, investing his family money in a new taxi to make money in a larger city. On 1 December 2002 he and three passengers were handed over to US military officials by a local Afghan warlord, accused of organising an attack on Camp Salerno.

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