A 22-YEAR-OLD Afghan taxi driver whose only crime was driving past a US base at the wrong time was so badly beaten his legs could no longer bend and chained by the wrists to the ceiling of his cell where he eventually died.

Detainees in United States military custody in Afghanistan were the victims of widespread abuse by "young and poorly trained soldiers", according to a report published today.

CHILDREN’S hats and shoes littered a bloody field cratered by gunfire yesterday after a US airstrike, aimed at a wanted Taliban commander, mistakenly killed nine children in an Afghan mountain village.

The Taliban Supreme Court has indefinitely postponed the trial of eight international aid workers, fearing that the court’s anger over the US bombing would prevent them from making a fair ruling.