News – 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 Guantanamo.
"...now teeming with some 630 prisoners - more than twice the 275 being held at Guantanamo."
GREAT! More target practice for our troops, until bin Laden is found! I mean, let's face it, it's not as if these people value their lives, anyway. I know - - we can tell them they are dying for Allah, then EVERYBODY wins!
I just LOVE win-win situations!
An Arab family moved into our neighborhood recently. The rest of us held a meeting to discuss the danger of them being members of al qaeda. Someone suggested we could talk to the family to get a better idea of their true intentions but was overruled by wiser voices who argued that the risk was too great - they'd lie to us anyway, as all Arabs do - and we should just kill the family. After all, we'd all be sorry if we did nothing and discover one day that the Arab family ate one of our children.
So we killed the family and burned down their house. That'll teach 'em! On Sunday, several of us neighbors went to church thanking God for giving us the moral courage to take a stand against terrorism and violence. And if we guessed wrong, we take comfort that Jesus knows we had good intentions and will smile lovingly as he gives us a pass on our actions.
"Bagram prisoners have fewer privileges, less ability to contest their detention and no access to lawyers. Some detainees have been held without charge for more than five years, officials said."
What bothers me is potentially holding people forever without a chance to hear charges or defend themselves. Because we are not at war against a state the detainees could potentially be facing a life sentence. It sounds like something that as a kid growing up I used to hear Russia did. Never did I expect my country, my United States, to indefinitely secret people away without charge.
psst, yeah in this many years sure the prison will overflow. But I don't think this is the answer for anything. If we want to solve the situation in Afghanistan, instead of putting our hands around the shoulders of Musharraff we must attack the tribal areas of Pakistan. Kill Bin Laden and his kins once and forever. That will solve it. Those stupid Pakistani's truly deserve a kick on their butts.
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Doesn't Halliburton have a contract to build detention facilities?
I think it was Feinstein's husband's company.