Is the Shoah, then? If not, what is? So heartbreaking.

A young man believed to have been detained in the US-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan since 2004 now appears to have become mentally disturbed.

Younis Ramahtullah, or "Salah" as his family calls him, disappeared in 2004 while living with his uncle in Pakistan to finish his studies. His family, who could not explain how or why their son had been captured by the British Forces in Iraq, maintain his innocence, portraying him as a modest young man, with no interest in politics.

According to the Ministry of Defence, however, two men believed to be members of the terrorist organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and who the legal rights NGO Reprieve group maintains are Salah and a man named Amanatullah Ali, were handed over to the Americans in Iraq and placed in the Bagram Theatre Internment Facility in Afghanistan.

The torture of prisoners at Bagram is comparable to that of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In 2002, the US military investigated the deaths of two men in Bagram, one was a 22-year-old taxi driver named Dilawar, who died after being severely beaten by US soldiers while shackled to the ceiling of his cell.

Identified by another former prisoner, Dr. Ghairat Baheer, Salah was confirmed to have become mentally ill. "Sometimes he used to beat his head against the bars of his cell and he was always in a temper and taking a lot of medication," he said to the BBC.

After a nine-month investigation, the NGO Reprieve was able to track down Salah's family. Apparently, the young man's parents broke down in tears when they spoke to BBC.

"For anyone who managed to get out normal, like I did, -- it was just a miracle and a blessing from God," proclaimed Dr. Baheer.