Another Guantanamo Prison Grows In Afghanistan

The incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. But even if Guantánamo 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 Guantánamo; an estimated 670 are locked up under similar conditions at Bagram.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[Rog49Thomas]

Plus ca change, plus ce la meme chose

[1man1voicenovote]

Welcome to the belly of the Beast.

[SurrealPumpkin]

No wonder La Feinstein doesn't want Panetta at CIA.

[RockySoldier]

well, are we not supposed to lock up the guys we fight anymore? i totally agree with shutting down guantanamo and shifting the policies towards the lawful detention of individuals, but let's not go crazy and start assuming that every last person held in these facilities is simply a sad, mistaken, innocent person. there are some bad people there.

let's bring em home to the US, charge em in a US court, and put em in prison.

[Rog49Thomas]

Due process and respect for rights.

No reasonable person could object.

[HansB]

Well, I'm a reasonable person and I object. The point is, not everyone locked up in Bagram is a criminal. Many are prisoners of war. They can't be tried by a court - they'd be found innocent. They're just on the other side, that's all.

POWs shouldn't be tried in court or held in prison. They should be well cared for, under Red Cross supervision, until the end of hostilities, whenever that may be.