Defying U.S. Plan, Prison Expands in Afghanistan

[Donnachaidh]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — As the Bush administration struggles for a way to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a similar effort to scale down a larger and more secretive American detention center in Afghanistan has been troubled by political, legal and security problems, officials say.

The American detention center, established at the Bagram military base as a temporary screening site after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, is now teeming with some 630 prisoners — more than twice the 275 being held at Guantánamo.

The administration has spent nearly three years and more than $30 million on a plan to transfer Afghan prisoners held by the United States to a refurbished high-security detention center run by the Afghan military outside Kabul.

But almost a year after the Afghan detention center opened, American officials say it can hold only about half the prisoners they once planned to put there. As a result, the makeshift American site at Bagram will probably continue to operate with hundreds of detainees for the foreseeable future, the officials said.

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[Diclotican]

1. Donnachaidh

Donnachaidh

And then the right wingers claim that US have NO SECRET PRISON OVERSEAS????.. Gee I know that one of my rather right winger friend would go bananas if I claim that US have secret prison overseas... (I do have one friend who are really right winger, but when it come to it, he is a good man.. If we don't talk politic.. And he is a lot more older than me, so I guess he have some sense.. Even that i do believe his trust in PNAC is deadly wrong...


Diclotican

Sorry my bad English, not my native language

[mac2]

2. He ignores our Congress and is building a military

base in Italy. Well...they did approve a defense budget without any over sight. Thank you Reid and Pelsoi for not impeaching theses Empire Building thugs.

[mac2]

3. Bush also ignores the Courts

and our laws regarding those off-shore for profit fear prisions.

Impeach him.