Pentagon expanding Guantánamo-like prison in Afghanistan

By John Byrne

As President Barack Obama prepares to shutter the infamous US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, he appears to be supporting the expansion of another secretive prison in Afghanistan -- at a pricetag of some $10 to $25 million.

In a little-noticed filing Wednesday, the US Army announced it is soliciting bids for the expansion of the US prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

The announced request for proposals says the Army seems a "build contract for three (3) new detention housing units to be located directly adjacent to the existing detention facility at Parwan. The three new detention housing units include one (1) Special Housing Unit (SHU) and two (2) Detention Housing Units (DHU)."

"The dollar magnitude of this project is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000," the Army adds.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0513/pentagon-expanding-guantanamolike-prison-afghanistan/

Better to keep the Taliban prisoners under humane supervision than to kill them in the field, like the German prisoners incarcerated in this country during WWII. I think some of them stayed in this country and became American citizens. Obama is not Bush.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8674179.stm

Obama may not be bush but Gates is still Gates and McChrystal is still McChrystal.

and the Obama admin is sucking the balls of the MIC.

of it's specific location or because "word" had got out but because it erodes who we are as a people and a nation, because we see these sites as an evil abomination.

Jesus in Heaven!!!!

I vote no confidence on the whole fiasco we call a government.