Family members on Tuesday found the body of a man missing since last November near the American Special Forces base in Afghanistan which he was last seen being taken. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/world/asia/torture-victims-body-is-found-near-us-base-afghans-say.html?ref=world After his disappearance, the man, Sayid Mohammad, was seen in a video undergoing torture at the hands of an Afghan-American named Zakaria Kandahari, who was the chief translator for an American Army Special Forces A Team stationed at the base in the Nerkh district of Wardak Province. Afghan officials have said they are seeking Mr. Kandahari’s arrest on charges of murder, torture and prisoner abuse, and accuse the American military of shielding him from capture. Investigators had now raised the number of missing and dead to 17 people, all of whom disappeared after having been taken into custody by the A Team in Nerkh district. “There is no question that Zakaria directly tortured and murdered, But who is Zakaria? Who recruited him, gave him his salary, his weapons? Who kept him under their protection? He worked for Special Forces. That a member of their team was committing such crimes and they didn’t know it is just not credible.”

Mr. Mohammad, a farmer from Karim Dad village, was 23 when he was arrested on Nov. 21 by A Team members on quad bikes.