Another Gitmo grows in Afghanistan
Yahoo! News
01/06/09
The incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. But even if Guantanamo closes, the controversial U.S. practice of jailing suspected al-Qaeda militants and other terrorists indefinitely won’t end, because such detentions continue on an even greater scale at the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, 40 miles north of Kabul. Approximately 250 detainees are currently being held at Guantanamo; an estimated 670 are locked up under similar conditions at Bagram...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090106/us_time/08599186951900
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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01/06/09
The incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. But even if Guantanamo closes, the controversial U.S. practice of jailing suspected al-Qaeda militants and other terrorists indefinitely won’t end, because such detentions continue on an even greater scale at the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, 40 miles north of Kabul. Approximately 250 detainees are currently being held at Guantanamo; an estimated 670 are locked up under similar conditions at Bagram...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090106/us_time/08599186951900
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bagram
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
rudkla - 7. Jan, 09:57
