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September 23, 2010

US to Maintain Prison, Rendition Flights in Afghanistan
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The US military is planning to maintain a prison at its massive Bagram
Air Base even after the Afghan government is handed formal control next
year. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, the head of US military
prisons in Afghanistan, Vice Admiral Robert Harward, said the US will
continue to jail people deemed "security threats" as well as prisoners
brought into Afghanistan on rendition flights. In response, Clara
Gutteridge of the legal charity Reprieve said, "This proposal for a US
'prison within a prison'...reveals that the operative principle at the
heart of Obama’s overseas detention policy is to maintain a clear
continuity with the worst practices of the Bush-era."



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