Bagram Air Base. Google Earth / DigitalGlobeFrom Der Spiegel:
While the world celebrates the planned closure of Guantanamo there is another US military prison full of terror suspects -- at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. How Obama deals with the camp will indicate how serious he is about breaking with his predecessor.
Everyone is talking about Guantanamo these days. Almost every country in the world reacted with relief, if not outright euphoria, to one of the very first announcements by the new President Barack Obama: The US military prison for terror suspects on Cuba would be closed. Torture and CIA secret prisons were finally to be a thing of the past.
One week after Obama's inauguration another black mark on the US war on terror is in the headlines, another of the sins of his predecessor George W. Bush. On Monday the New York Times devoted its top story to the Bagram prison in Afghanistan.
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My Comment: President Obama is not going to close Bagram. It is too important of a facility for both the U.S. and Afghanistan in detaining Taliban and foreign fighters that are captured (almost daily) in Afghanistan.
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