One detainee facility was at the southern Kandahar International Airport, shown here in December 2001 where members of the 26th Marine Expeditionary unit stand guard. Although the public outcry in the United States and abroad has focused mainly on detainee abuse at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, sadistic violence first appeared at Bagram and Kandahar.

• Read the McClatchy special package "Guantanamo: Beyond the Law"
• Watch the video about the eight-month investigation.
• See a database of 66 detainee profiles.

(Tom Pennington/Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)