http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/24/us-handover-afghan-prisoners-pressure-uk
Washington has sealed plans for the much-delayed handover of the last Afghan prisoners it holds on Afghan soil, removing a major irritant to ties with Kabul and leaving the UK as the only foreign power still jailing Afghans in their own country.
Britain halted transfers to Afghan jails over torture concerns, and after Monday's ceremony to giveAfghanistan full control of the Bagram prison, could face greater pressure from Afghan presidentHamid Karzai over that stance.The Afghan leader has long been an outspoken opponent of foreign-run jails that he sees as a serious violation of national sovereignty, but until now had focused most of his attention and political firepower on getting US forces to relinquish their huge prison near Kabul.
this just follows the rhetoric surrounding those we serve as benefactors, they are not trustworthy, if jail are turned over they would probaly release the inmates and recruit them back into combatants for or against themselves, they have already proved they are not for us killing 16 coalition soldiers this year alone.
The prisoners are not being tried in either the UK or Afghan judicial systems, but British commanders are not willing to release men they consider dangerous militants. Karzai demanded their transfer after the ruling, but since then the UN and an Afghan government delegation have both found evidence of torture in some Afghan jails.The Bagram jail, near the airbase of the same name, became notorious among Afghans after US abuse led to the deaths of at least two prisoners.The US military also ran a secret prison there which Afghans dubbed the "black jail", the International Committee of the Red Cross told to the BBC in 2010.After years of demands from Karzai for the transfer of the jail, a deal was reached a year ago to start a slow handover, to be completed in September 2012. But the US and Afghanistan clashed repeatedly over the long-term detention of some of the men captured by Nato forces during a decade of fighting.
these are not our granfathers wars, new terrain new rules and same old guys in washington trying to micro manage the Pres. and the generals on what should be done or their favorite choice of words "what i'd like to see...." who gives a damn they aren't dyingand being killed or maimed, screw what they want to see.
forgot the early days when a republican would say " i just got back from mid east we're doing good the soldiers came up to me and told me the want to keep fighting", as a Vietnam vet B-freakin-S. what does Britian think?
