In a post mortem report about the deaths of two Afghanistani prisoners at the Bagram, Afghanistan, prison (controlled by the U.S. military); a short autopsy report about one of the prisoners stated: "He had had some coronary artery disease", the medical examiner reported, but what caused his heart to fail was "blunt force injuries to the lower extremities".

One of the coroners later translated the assessment at a pre-trial hearing, saying the tissue in the young man's legs "had basically been pulpified. I've seen similar injuries in an individual run over by a bus," added the coroner.

The procedure was described as a "common peroneal strike" or a potentially disabling blow to the side of the leg, just above the knee. The U.S. interrogators did this so often to certain prisoners within a short period of time that they developed blood clots from the injuries and died. The tissue on their legs, and again, as the coroner described it, "had basically been pulpified."

Referring to two of the prisoners, it was reported that "Dilawar died from blunt force trauma to the lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease" and "Habibullah died of a pulmonary embolism apparently formed in his legs from the beatings". The tortures took place during January and February, 2004.