The US military is scrambling to try to block the new round of detainee releases from Bagram Prison, which sense being handed over to the Afghan government is seeing questions of actual evidence, and lacking that, releases.
In the first nine months of review, 650 detainees out of 764 have been released, because no credible evidence exists of them having done anything wrong. 88 of those are the subject of the latest Army push.
Army spokesman Col. Dave Lapan argued the Afghan Review Board has “exceeded its mandate” in ordering releases at all, saying their only two options with the detainees are to either order prosecution if evidence exists, or “further investigation” lacking that.
That’s more or less how the US ran the facility, except without the prosecutions and investigations, but releasing detainees was considered a non-option, and their “dangerousness” was accepted as a given without any proof.
Afghanistan’s fledgling court system is trying to define itself along traditional Western lines of actual trials with real evidence and a prospect of acquittal. That’s entirely foreign to the US military now, and is fueling outrage at the Afghan authorities.
WOW…. I guess the old adage U become your enemy rings true here and NOW…………!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm loving it! The NSA, helpless to do anything about it, is being tortured by the drip drip drip of The Snowden Cure. Iraq, now a staunch ally of Iran, is sinking into sectarian civil war, as its Sunni losers become ever more al Quaedafied. Syria under Assad, who was supposed to cave under the pressure of Western, Saudi, and al Quaeda mercenaries, has stood firm, and with the skilled help of Putin's Russia, and the material assistance of Iran (and Iran's new BFF, Maliki's Iraq), thoroughly humiliated the West in its attempt at regime change. Obama for his part has looked thoroughly incompetent, weak, clueless, and ineffectual, stumbling from one blunder to the next — those chemical weapons are still in Syria and going nowhere fast.
Now we go into election year 2014, with US foreign policy in the Mideast looking like a clown show in a mine field. As November approaches and campaigning reaches what I expect to be a Kafkaesque crescendo prepare to be entertained with the fabulous Mr. Karzai pointing to his backside and saying "Kiss my ass, and get the f*ck out!"
And the fireworks to close the show: how about the sudden worldwide collapse of the dollar, (by 50%? 75%? who knows?), brought on by some twitchy little non-event which nevertheless sparks a panic.
Yee hah! Let's have some fun!
I'm loving it! The NSA, helpless to do anything about it, is being tortured by the drip drip drip of The Snowden Cure. Iraq, now a staunch ally of Iran, is sinking into sectarian civil war, as its Sunni losers become ever more al Quaedafied. Syria and Assad, who was supposed to cave under the pressure of Western, Saudi, and al Quaeda mercenaries, has stood firm, and with the skilled help of Putin's Russia, and the material assistance of Iran (and Iran's new BFF, Maliki's Iraq), thoroughly humiliated the West in its botched attempt at regime change. Obama for his part has looked thoroughly incompetent, weak, clueless, and ineffectual, stumbling from one blunder to the next — those chemical weapons are still in Syria and going nowhere fast.
Now we go into election year 2014, with US foreign policy in the Mideast looking like a clown show in a mine field. As November approaches and campaigning reaches what I expect to be a Kafkaesque crescendo prepare to be entertained with the fabulous Mr. Karzai pointing to his backside and saying "Kiss my ass, and get the f*ck out!"
And the fireworks to close the show: how about the sudden worldwide collapse of the dollar, (by 50%? 75%? who knows?), brought on by some twitchy little non-event which nevertheless sparks a panic.
Yee hah! Let's have some fun!