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| US, UK-run secret jails found in Afghanistan |
| 2014-04-27 |
| [Iran Press TV] An Afghan fact-finding committee says it has uncovered secret jails in southern Afghanistan run by US-led foreign forces. The commission, appointed by Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... to probe jails run by US and British forces in the country, made the revelation on Saturday. "We have conducted a thorough investigation and search of Kandahar Airfield and Camp Bastion and found several illegal and unlawful detention facilities run and operated by foreign military forces," said Abdul Shakur Dadras, the head of the committee. Dadras also noted that the committee members were sent to Kandahar and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces to review the jails on two foreign forces' bases, Kandahar Airfield, controlled by the US forces, and Camp Bastion that is run by the UK military. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement later in the day that it was aware of "their investigative team looking into the detention facilities in Kandahar and Helmand and we are cooperating fully with the investigation on this matter." The issue is considered as the latest dispute over the detention of Afghans by US-led foreign forces. Earlier this year, Afghan government freed dozens of detainees held in the US-run Bagram prison. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Gauging from the headline it ain't secret no more. |
| Posted by: Gleaque de Medici 2014-04-27 13:00 |