Why Can't The United States Put Allegations of Secret US Detention Centers Behind Us?

[unhappycamper]

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unhappycamper summary of this article: Perhaps it's because we continue to have them in places we occupy.






A detainee stands inside a cell inside the U.S.-run Parwan detention facility near Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Some former detainees have said over the years that they were held at a smaller, more isolated detention center nicknamed the "Black Jail."


Afghans allege abuse at secret U.S. jail
By Heidi Vogt - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Oct 14, 2010 21:05:22 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan — A report issued Thursday by a U.S. foundation details allegations of detainee abuse — some as recent as this year — from Afghans who say they were held at a secret detention center inside the main American military base in Afghanistan.

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[pinboy3niner]

2. K&R

[baldguy]

3. Close them, declassify them, compensate the victims.

Only then will we be able to get it behind us.

[tavalon]

4. I know it's taking a bit more time on your part thanks to the government

attempting to censor you while not having a clue how these ol' tubes work, you have been spot on in your paraphrases.

Can't stop the talk if you don't stop doing the crime. And it is a crime. Illegal and immoral. Was when it started and still is. Want us to stop giving you hell about them? Close them.

[w8liftinglady]

5. i will wager it's because they have contracted this out to private corps

and there's still too much cash to be made.

I spoke to my friend who was an MP during VietNam,and he stated that regular Army wouldn't have commited a lot of the Abu Ghrab crap,but that these duties had been turfed to Army Reservists with little law enforcement background,as the regulars had to do infantry.Now that the troops are thinning out more,I'm sure it is a job largely done by private contractors(they keep their mouths shut)

[JonLP24]

6. Kick

:kick:

[Panaconda]

7. K&R

[MadHound]

8. Yep, Bagram AFB.

It's been in business for a long while. That's why I couldn't get too worked up over the Obama promise to close Gitmo, he still has Bagram to fall back on.

The atrocities being done at Bagram has been known for years, but they don't get the publicity that Gitmo and Abu Ghraib got. Frankly I think that Bagram is like a fall back position for American torture. If they get caught at Gitmo or Abu Ghraib or elsewhere, well, they always have Bagram AFB to ship people off to, never to be seen again.

This has needed to end for years. Nice to see it's getting a little publicity, but until we see the sort of sustained outrage we saw of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, the torture is simply going to continue.