Malnutrition, Disease Rampant at Prison for Taliban
Red Cross Begins Emergency Feeding

They are too weak to stand for long, gaunt young Afghan men scratching at the lesions on their arms, picking at the lice in their beards and coughing incessantly. For nearly five months, they have had little more than bread and rice to eat.

Now, hundreds of these captured Taliban fighters are suffering from severe malnutrition, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Here at the prison in which they have been held since the Taliban's defeat last fall, the Red Cross today began the emergency feeding of almost 100 of the worst- off captives; up to 500 eventually will be moved into tents for medical treatment.
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