WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come.
And no one bats an eye!
The proposed detention center would replace the cavernous, makeshift American prison on the Bagram military base north of Kabul, which is now typically packed with about 630 prisoners.... American officials now concede that the new Afghan-run prison cannot absorb all the Afghans now detained by the United States, much less the waves of new prisoners from the escalating fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The proposal for a new American prison at Bagram underscores the daunting scope and persistence of the United States military’s detention problem....
Awwww, poor U.S. military and their "detention" problem!
Imagine how the innocent guys being tortured and killed feel!!!
Military officials have long been aware of serious problems with the existing detention center in Afghanistan, the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.... Harsh interrogation methods and sleep deprivation were used widely, and two Afghan detainees died there in December 2002, after being repeatedly struck by American soldiers....
But we don't talk about those things much here in AmeriKa.
Instead, the government of empire builds more torture chambers and ho-hum!
Hundreds of Afghans and other men are still held in wire-mesh pens surrounded by coils of razor wire. There are only minimal areas for the prisoners to exercise, and kitchen, shower and bathroom space is also inadequate.
How come Nazi labor camps are coming to mind?
Faced with that, American officials said they wanted to replace the Bagram prison, a converted aircraft hangar that still holds some of the decrepit aircraft-repair machinery left by the Soviet troops who occupied the country in the 1980s. In its place the United States will build what officials described as a more modern and humane detention center that would usually accommodate about 600 detainees — or as many as 1,100 in a surge — and cost more than $60 million.
While they let U.S. troop barracks deteriorate?
Maybe it is time to call a halt to this unending monstrosity built upon unholy lies, readers?
No need for detention centers since 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!!!
Therefore, the prisoners are ALL INNOCENTS!!!!
All YOUR $$$$, too, 'murkns!!!!
And the AmeriKan MSM really loves the word "surge" now, ever notice that?
“Our existing theater internment facility is deteriorating,” said Sandra L. Hodgkinson, the senior Pentagon official for detention policy, in a telephone interview. “It was renovated to do a temporary mission. There is a sense that this is the right time to build a new facility.”
So the "temporary" becomes PERMANENT, huh?
Well, I'm tired of getting knee-deep in shit 'cause of lies, so no attack on Iran, huh?
American officials also acknowledged that there are serious health risks to detainees and American military personnel who work at the Bagram prison, because of their exposure to heavy metals from the aircraft-repair machinery and asbestos.
“It’s just not suitable,” another Pentagon official said. “At some point, you have to say, ‘That’s it. This place was not made to keep people there indefinitely.’”
So they were meant to be detained forever, huh?
While your schools crumble, 'murka!!!!
After years of entreaties by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United States recently began to allow relatives to speak with prisoners at Bagram through video hookups.
Even Hitler let the Red Cross in, readers!
“The driving factor behind this is to ensure that in all instances we are giving the highest standards of treatment and care,” said Ms. Hodgkinson, who has briefed Senate and House officials on the construction plans.
Yeah, when we TORTURE somebody we are going to do a FIRST-CLASS JOB of it!!!!
The Pentagon is planning to use $60 million in emergency construction funds this fiscal year to build a complex of 6 to 10 semi-permanent structures resembling Quonset huts, each the size of a football field, a Defense Department official said.
YOUR TAX $$$$$, 'murkns? When you gonna get sick of eating shit, damn you!?
The structures will have more natural light, and each will have its own recreation area. There will be a half-dozen other buildings for administration, medical care and other purposes, the official said....
While the American public is getting stiffed by this fucking government!!!
And I DON'T WANT TO LOCK UP INNOCENT AFGHANIS!!
9/11 an INSIDE JOB, dammit!
The military plans to request $24 million in fiscal year 2009 and $7.4 million in fiscal year 2010 to pay for educational programs, job training and other parts of what American officials call a reintegration plan.
Too bad you couldn't get some of those programs, Americans.
All you get is SHIT in a BOWL!!!! Eat up!!!!
After that, the Pentagon plans to pay about $7 million a year in training and operational costs....
Military personnel who know both Bagram and Guantánamo describe the Afghan site, 40 miles north of Kabul, as far more spartan.
Translation: Bagram is WORSE than Gitmo (shudder)!!!!!
Bagram prisoners have fewer privileges, less ability to contest their detention and no access to lawyers. Some detainees have been held without charge for more than five years, officials said. As of April, about 10 juveniles were being held at Bagram, according to a recent American report to a United Nations committee."
Not too mention the loads of people we are killing, period!
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/The First Abu Ghraib
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Perversion
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Dilawar and Habibullah
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Chamber of Horrors
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/American Amnesty
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Bagram
Afghanistan Torture Chamber
