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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:46 AM Sep 2012

Afghanistan: US hands over controversial Bagram jail

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19539412



The US military has handed control of a controversial prison housing more than 3,000 Taliban fighters and terrorism suspects to the Afghan authorities.

In a small ceremony, Afghan officials said inmates had been transferred to their authority.

The move is part of a deal to transfer all Afghan prisons back to local control ahead of the withdrawal of Nato forces at the end of 2014.

Bagram prison has been at the centre of a number of prisoner abuse allegations.
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Afghanistan: US hands over controversial Bagram jail (Original Post) xchrom Sep 2012 OP
Now, how about handing over the entire COUNTRY to rachel1 Sep 2012 #1

rachel1

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1. Now, how about handing over the entire COUNTRY to
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:08 PM
Sep 2012

the Afghan people and respecting their country's sovereignty?

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