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The Obama administration is establishing new procedures for holding detainees at the Bagram military base. And while they are a step in the right direction, they fail to create a fair and effective detention system that will be credible in the eyes of the Afghan government, the Afghan people, and human rights groups.
On the plus side, the procedures will allow U.S.-held detainees to contest their detention, call witnesses, and get advice from "personal representatives." But on the down side, detainees will continue to not have access to lawyers. There are also concerns that the procedures won't be implemented with rigor. In Guantanamo, detainees requested witnesses who the government never sought out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonath..._b_291091.html
Prisoner Abuse Continues at Bagram Prison in Afghanistan
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...650242,00.html
Human Rights Lawyer on Bagram Prison
'The Obama Administration Has Completely Failed'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...650324,00.html
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When it comes to mindless brutality, the excesses of the indigenous Iraqi extremists and those of the invading extremists were about even. Heads were sawed off, schoolgirls were raped , murdered and burned, etc., etc. Now the same mistakes are being made in Afghanistan and will have the same result; NATO troops, and in particular American troops, will he hated and attacked until , like in Iraq, there was simply no justifiable route to keeping them there.
Another moral failure. Shove' democracy '.