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Friday, August 05, 2005
NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS - 5 AUG 05
From the NY Times, U.S. Plans to Transfer Afghan Prisoners ("The United States will return about 110 Afghan prisoners now at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Afghanistan, where the Afghan government will decide whether to detain or release them, American and Afghan officials said Thursday. The Pentagon said an additional 350 Afghans detained by the American military at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan would be handed over to the Afghan government after other facilities were built and guards trained.").
From the Washington Post, Afghanistan Agrees To Accept Detainees.
From USA Today, Afghans Held at Guantanamo Will Be Sent to Home Country, and this article regarding Sen. John McCain's efforts to reform the interrogation of prisoners by the U.S. Military, entitled Voice of Experience:
Categories: Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Newspapers
From the Washington Post, Afghanistan Agrees To Accept Detainees.
From USA Today, Afghans Held at Guantanamo Will Be Sent to Home Country, and this article regarding Sen. John McCain's efforts to reform the interrogation of prisoners by the U.S. Military, entitled Voice of Experience:
During the Vietnam War, Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McCain was held captive for 5½ years in North Vietnam, where he was placed in solitary confinement and tortured repeatedly. McCain, now a Republican senator from Arizona and the nation's most celebrated ex-POW, has a crisp message for the Bush White House and Pentagon about how to treat detainees: You've got it wrong.
Categories: Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Newspapers
