With taxpayers' money, of course..
Thinkprogress:
In “a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come,” the New York Times reports that “the Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex” at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. As Justin Peters notes at Slate, the Times’ article doesn’t reveal until its final paragraphs that “some detainees have been held without charge for more than five years” at the current Bagram detention facility:
Military personnel who know both Bagram and Guantánamo describe the Afghan site, 40 miles north of Kabul, as far more spartan. 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. As of April, about 10 juveniles were being held at Bagram, according to a recent American report to a United Nations committee.
3 comments:
Don't look for a penny of that money to go for new prisons it's will go in the pockets of the crooks. Now I still can't get over how George W. Bush invited the Taliban as his guest to the United States and gave them a tour. Now their called the enemy. What went wrong with the friendship? Now many Presidents invite a terrorist group to the US as their guest. When the US puppet Afghanistan President is kicked out where will he go? What happen to the oil pipe lines Cheney was drilling in Afghanistan as the Media hasn't said a word about it since the invasion?
I noticed the Saudi King is using his ace card and saying if the US wants more oil they will have to pay big bucks for it. I remember 8 years ago it was the US President calling the shots what happen? The World Leaders are treating the US the same way the US treated them. Pay back is a bit*h.
That prison needs to go in Illinois for the politicians.
By the way, someone seriously needs to look at what happened in South Africa with the Truth and Reconciliation effort and our own Civil War. I do not recall any of the history books saying that Lincoln rounded up all the Confederate soldiers and throwing them into jail, just because they were on the losing side.
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