Much has been made of the Afghan government releasing dozens of what the US dubbed “dangerous” detainees from Bagram Prison. It turns out they are just the tip of the iceberg as the Afghan reviews the evidence, or lack thereof, against those detainees.
In the three years since the handover began, the Afghan military police reveals that the review process on the 5,021 prisoners resulted in 4,159, over 82 percent, were found innocent of the charges against them and released outright.
That’s just the reviews they’ve gotten through so far, as officials say another 336 detainees are still pending reviews that they haven’t started because the US hasn’t turned over the files containing so-called evidence against them.
The Pentagon has angrily condemned the judicial review panel in the past, saying they were never meant to be allowed to let people go for lack of evidence. The failure to turn over the files on those 336 detainees may suggest the Pentagon has decided to stop cooperating with them entirely.
4159 People with a grudge against America – will the Western warmongers ever learn???
Yes Andron, that´s 4,159 people, each with extended families, friends, neighbors, and sympathizers. Then there are all of us out here in the rest of the world who are sickened by the incarcerations of people without any evidence. A lot of damage has been done, to the peoples we abused and of course to ourselves – a lot of damage. It gets even worse: When the Afghan government actually gets around to giving the prisoners justice, the US Government publically cries “foul” that we shouldn´t be releasing anybody – after all, it was so much work rounding them up in the first place. We have become a very sick nation – Afghanistan is giving us leasons on justice – I hope our leaders learn something.
Yes Walter,
We can only live in hope That someday our "leaders" will see what everyone else already knows.
If I'm an Afghan prosecutor, I simply say to the US: "If you don't turn over the files, then we have no evidence whatsoever about these remaining prisoners, and by all principles of law and justice we must release every one of them. Is that what you want? If not, deliver up the files now."
What can we expect from the world's biggest jailer, the USA?