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NEWS ABOUT: Bagram Air Force Base

Bagram Air Force Base stories: 7 news summaries

 Obama to Let 
 Bagram Prisoners 
 Challenge Detention 

Representatives would amass evidence, witnesses for detainees

Sep 12, 09 8:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The White House plans to give some 600 detainees at a US-run prison in Kabul greater power to dispute their custody, the New York Times reports. After an expected rubber stamp from Congress, the Obama administration will send representatives to Bagram Air Base to amass evidence and witnesses for detainees.... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Bagram Air Force Base • US military • Kabul • prisoner • detainees

(Newser) - Many Afghans once detained by the US military at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, say they were treated similarly to abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, the BBC reports. “They did things that you would not do against animals let alone to humans,” a former detainee... More »

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Bagram Air Force Base • US military • abuse • prisoner • Afghanistan war • detainees • detention • Obama administration

(Newser) - A federal judge overruled both the Bush and the Obama administrations today, declaring that prisoners held at a military base in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in US civilian courts, the New York Times reports. The prisoners deserve the same right that the Supreme Court granted to Gitmo detainees last... More »

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Afghanistan • Bagram Air Force Base • enemy combatants • prisoners • habeas corpus

 Bush Stops in 
 Afghanistan; 
 Vows Support 

Pledges continued US support

Dec 15, 08 5:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Five hours after his final visit to the country that defined his presidency, President Bush landed in Afghanistan this morning for an unsurprising surprise visit on his farewell tour. After a pre-dawn rally with US troops, the president renewed his support of the fledgling democracy in a meeting with President... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • Bagram Air Force Base • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • al-Qaeda • troop levels • George W. Bush

 Pentagon to Build Giant Prison in Afghanistan

New Bagram complex marks intention to hold prisoners abroad for years to come

May 17, 08 6:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pentagon is planning to build a huge new detention complex in Afghanistan, reports the New York Times, acknowledging that the US expects to hold prisoners there for many years to come. The 40-acre, $60-million facility at Bagram Air Force Base will replace the existing makeshift prison in a converted... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pentagon • prison • Bagram Air Force Base • US military • enemy combatants • prisoners • jail • Bagram

US Afghan Prison Dwarfs Gitmo

Plans to transfer prisoners falls short

Jan 7, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay may get all the press, but Bagram, the US detention center in Afghanistan, holds over twice as many prisoners, and it’s proving just as difficult to close. Plans to transfer its roughly 630 inmates to a US-funded Afghan prison outside Kabul have failed, the New York ... More »

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Afghanistan • Bagram Air Force Base • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Geneva Convention • Red Cross

Afghan Prison Is as Bad as Gitmo

May 3, 07 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The U.S. prison at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan is as bad as Guantanamo, reports Eliza Griswold in the New Republic. Prisoners are kept in barbed-wire cages, beaten, tortured, raped, and held without promise of trial. But unlike Gitmo, Bagram has no visiting congressional delegations. More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • human rights • prison • Bagram Air Force Base • Guantanamo Bay • human rights violations

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