U.S. hopes to share prison with Afghanistan

[cory777]

Source: LA Times

The Obama administration wants to retain the ability to hold terrorism suspects from other countries at its largest prison in Afghanistan, even after it hands control of the facility to the Afghan government next year, according to U.S. officials.

If Afghan officials agree, it would give the administration a place to interrogate terrorism suspects captured in countries such as Somalia or Yemen. President Obama made a high-profile pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after taking office last year. But that would leave the administration without a lockup for those suspected of plotting attacks against the United States.

Administration officials have looked in recent months to the U.S.-run prison at Bagram air base north of Kabul as a place to hold suspects captured elsewhere. But Afghan officials have long demanded they be given control of the prison, and the Obama administration has agreed. Last month, Obama reiterated that promise.

Now, administration officials are developing a compromise plan to hand over control, but also carve out a section of the prison for non-Afghan detainees who would remain under U.S. custody, according to a senior U.S. official.

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[tekisui]

1. Gitmo in Afghanistan.

[Capitalocracy]

2. So true and so sad.

"President Obama made a high-profile pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after taking office last year. But that would leave the administration without a lockup for those suspected of plotting attacks against the United States."

Translation: "President Obama promised to close Gitmo, but that would leave us without a Gitmo."

Thankfully, we can just open up a new one in Afghanistan. Problem solved. All liberals and anti-fascists will be told to shut the hell up.

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[Solly Mack]

3. Damn

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[bahrbearian]

4. Prisons R US