Afghanistan Agrees To Accept Detainees

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Afghanistan Agrees To Accept Detainees
U.S. Negotiating Guantanamo Transfers

By Josh White and Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 5, 2005; A01

The Bush administration is negotiating the transfer of nearly 70 percent of the detainees at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to three countries as part of a plan, officials said, to share the burden of keeping suspected terrorists behind bars.

U.S. officials announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement with the government of Afghanistan to transfer most of its nationals to Kabul's "exclusive" control and custody. There are 110 Afghan detainees at Guantanamo and 350 more at the Bagram airfield near Kabul. Their transfers could begin in the next six months.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/04/AR2005080402125_pf.html

[driver8]

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[unhappycamper]

2. Didn't Halliburton just get a big $$$$ contract to upgrade Gitmo?

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[muriel_volestrangler]

3. "ambassador at large for war crimes"

Wow, I didn't know the USA had such a post. Seriously, is his job claiming that the USA doesn't commit war crimes, or is it to accuse other countries of them?