Monday, July 20, 2009
Now they do it
For years there have been rumors and then actual reports of all manner of bad shit going on at Bagram prison in Afghanistan. So bad that it sounded more like a bad Hollywood movie than an American run prison. Sadly, it was true and now, after a US soldier has been captured by the Taliban, the military has decided to do something about Bagram.
A sweeping United States military review calls for overhauling the troubled American-run prison here as well as the entire Afghan jail and judicial systems, a reaction to worries that abuses and militant recruiting within the prisons are helping to strengthen the Taliban...Applying the lessons learned in Iraq which begs the question, Why did the lesson have to be learned?
...Under the new approach, the United States would help build and finance a new Afghan-run prison for the hard-core extremists who are now using the poorly run Afghan corrections system as a camp to train petty thieves and other common criminals to be deadly militants, the American officials said.
The remaining inmates would be taught vocational skills and offered other classes, and they would be taught about moderate Islam with the aim of reintegrating them into society, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the review’s findings had not been publicly disclosed. The review also presses for training new Afghan prison guards, prosecutors and judges.
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