Bagram Afghanistan

The New Bagram: Has Anything Changed?

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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Having toured it, I give the new Bagram detention facility a "vastly improved" grade compared to what it was before. But, that being said, U.S. detention policy still has a long way to go.

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Afghan Working Group Calls for Transparency at Bagram

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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The only way the United States will feel comfortable getting out of the risky and destructive detention business, is if it trusts the Afghan justice system.

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New Bagram Prison Procedures Still Fall Short

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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New Bagram detainee procedures, while not all bad, fail to create a fair and effective detention system that will be credible in the eyes of the Afghan government, the Afghan people, and human rights groups.

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Bagram Prison Threatens Success in Afghanistan

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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The U.S. military finally seems to have learned that dropping bombs on civilians isn't the way to win the hearts and minds of Afghans. But neither is grabbing people out of their houses and jailing them.

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Afghan Prison At Bagram Poses Problem For Obama

Nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- For months, a national debate has raged over the fate of the 245 detainees at the United States military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...

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Another Guantanamo Prison Grows In Afghanistan

TIME | MARK THOMPSON | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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The incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. But even if Guantánamo closes, the controve...

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