U.S. to Build Another Gitmo in Afghanistan

[kpete]

Published on Thursday, January 5, 2006 by the Financial Times
US Plans Afghan Jail for Terror Suspects
by Jimmy Burns and Rachel Morarjee

The US government has plans to build a high-security prison in Afghanistan to hold terror suspects, including some who would be transferred from the controversial US naval base at Guantánamo Bay.

The site selected for the jail is Pol-e-Charki, a rundown prison near Kabul dating from the Soviet era. Some of the base’s prison facilities have recently been refurbished as part of a European Union-financed criminal justice reform programme backed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The transfer of prisoners of Afghan origin from Guantánamo to Afghanistan is intended to take pressure off the US administration, which continues to face strong international criticism for holding detainees without trial or other legal recourse

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0105-06.htm
via:http://talkleft.com/