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 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A medical examiner testifying in the assault trial of a former CIA contractor said Friday that an Afghan detainee the defendant interrogated probably died from a beating, but a defense expert said there's too little information to know the cause of death.
David Passaro, a former Special Forces medic working in Afghanistan as a CIA contractor, is accused of beating Abdul Wali during a 2003 interrogation about rocket attacks on a remote base housing U.S. and Afghan troops. Defense attorneys have said Passaro never hit Wali.
Dr. Reinhard Motte, a medical examiner from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., testified that Wali probably died from injuries sustained during a beating described by soldiers who witnessed the interrogation. Several Army paratroopers testified this week they saw Passaro hit Wali repeatedly with a metal flashlight and kick him in the groin.
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