Afghanistan Releases Prisoners Over U.S. Objections
Source: NYT
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — The Afghan government on Thursday released 65 prisoners over the objections of the American military, which said they were dangerous insurgents responsible for killing its soldiers and might return to the fight.
The 65 detainees left the Bagram prison in the morning, and were taken away in vehicles belonging to the Afghan National Army’s military police, who are in charge of the facility. American military guards are also present at the prison but were not in evidence. The police vehicles took them to a small bazaar on a main road, where they were transferred to taxis.
One of them was Abdul Samad, a prisoner who said he was picked up in the insurgent-dominated district of Andar in Ghazni Province 15 months ago, on his way to the Nerkh district, another insurgent stronghold in Wardak Province, to meet his brother. Interviewed by cellphone while riding in a taxi taking him and four other released prisoners to the capital, Kabul, Mr. Samad said he was a farmer, not an insurgent, and had never been given a reason for his arrest.
“They did not find any evidence against me to prove my involvement in any wrongdoing,” he said. One by one, the other released prisoners, three from Kandahar Province and one from Ghazni, got out of the taxi in Kabul while Mr. Samad continued on to Wardak, using 5,000 afghanis, about $90, given to him by the prison authorities along with a new suit of civilian clothing.
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Our man in Kabul wants to make every voter happy, including the voters bearing arms to overthrow him. That is all this is, remember the Presidential election is this April 5, just two months away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_presidential_election,_2014
Remember the present President can not run again, but he can make sure his candidate gets elected.
More on President Hamid Karzai:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai
Remember you do need some REAL votes, not matter how many ballots your stuff. Karzai had some explaining to do (which he avoided) when he received someone like 2000 votes from a town where no one voted for the Taliban held the town (I can hear it now "The votes counted where the votes that would have been cast for me, except for the minor fact everyone in the town hated my guts"
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You can cheat in an election, but you still need some people who said they voted for you just to show some votes for you were real.