Reply #174: Bagram Air Base (aka Obama's Guantanmo)

[FedUp_Queer]

An Excerpt from:

Very Bad News: Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base Will Be Obama's Guantanamo

By Stephen Foley, Independent UK. Posted February 22, 2009.

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One of the detainees who passed through the Afghan prison was Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who is expected to return to the UK this week after his release from Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Mohamed's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, head of a legal charity called Reprieve, called President Obama's strategy "the Bagram bait and switch," where the administration was trumpeting the closure of a camp housing 242 prisoners, while scaling up the Bagram base to house 1,100 more.
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The full article here: http://www.alternet.org/world/128273/very_bad_news:_afghanistan%27s_bagram_air_base_will_be_obama%27s_guantanamo

Dammit, but this man is a fraud.