Half Of Taliban Prisoners Captured In Combat Are Released After 96 Hours Because Of Detention Rules

US forces in Afghanistan have freed 81 Taliban prisoners from the jail at Bagram, north of Kabul. Photo from The Independent

Troops 'Release Half Of Taliban Prisoners After Four Days' -- the Telegraph

British troops have to release captured Taliban militants after only four days because of Nato rules limiting the time they can be held.

Official Foreign Office figures claim that since July 2006, UK Forces have detained 630 individuals, who were either transferred or released. According to officers, around half of those detained are then freed.

"It's a joke," one officer told The Sunday Times upon returning from Afghanistan. "We can only hold them for 96 hours and then we have to hand them over to the Afghans. If we can't do that, we have to let them go. We end up releasing about half those we capture and they just go off, join their friends and come back to attack us."

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My Comment: The lawyers and the political correctness crowd appear to now be running this war .... I predict that the end result will be many more of our soldiers and Afghan civilians being killed by these murderous gangs.