[lbo-talk] Guantanamo II: the empire strikes back.

[Jim Devine]

from SLATE (2/26/06): >The New York Times leads with the military's
quiet expansion of the detention center at Bagram, Afghanistan, where
approximately 500 suspects are being held indefinitely and in poor
conditions that seem to be worse than those in Guantanamo. ...


> As the administration decided to pretty much stop sending new detainees to Guantamo in 2004, the population of Bagram has soared. No one from the outside world, except the Red Cross, is allowed to visit the facilities. Officials who spoke anonymously to the NYT insist that Bagram was never meant to house long-term prisoners, but now some have been there for three years. Although conditions at the detention center seem to have improved since the military decided to renovate the facilities, by all accounts the situation is still bleak and prisoners are mostly held in large wire cages.<
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