U.S.: Afghanistan has freed 37 “dangerous” prisoners

[Shah-i-Kot]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-afgha...ous-prisoners/


U.S.: Afghanistan has freed 37 “dangerous” prisoners





Last Updated Jan 27, 2014 9:23 AM EST

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. military said Monday Afghanistan's government had released 37 "dangerous" prisoners who pose threats to the country and the region. The release of the prisoners from the prison at the Bagram military base, which was previously controlled by the U.S. military, has been a sticking point in Afghan-U.S. relations as the two sides struggle over a deal allowing U.S. and allied troops to remain in the country past the end of this year.
Abdul Shakor Dadras, who heads the Bagram Prisoner's Board of Review, confirmed to CBS News' Mukhtar Ahmad on Monday that the 37 prisoners release had been ordered, but it was up to the Afghan military police to determine when actually let them out of jail.

The U.S. condemned the release of "dangerous insurgents who have Afghan blood on their hands," linking them to roadside bombings and attacks on foreign and government troops.
The statement from the military called it an "extra-judicial release of detainees” and said it represented "a major step backward in further developing the rule of law in Afghanistan."
The Afghan government has said a review of the prisoners' cases turned up no evidence of wrongdoing for 45 of 88 detainees the U.S. wanted held, and that there was insufficient evidence on the others.
According to the Pentagon, "the 37 being released include 17 who are linked to the production of or attacks using improvised explosive devices; three who participated in or had knowledge of direct attacks wounding or killing 11 ANSF members; and four who participated in or had knowledge of direct attacks wounding or killing 42 U.S. or Coalition Force members."
Speaking to CBS News, Dadras reiterated the Afghan government's stance on Monday, saying "foreign forces did not provide us any evidence" to keep the men in prison. "According to Afghan law, the 37 prisoners are innocent and they should not be kept in jail any longer," he said.

Dadras told CBS News that the review board stood "ready to revise our decision," should the U.S. offer evidence of criminality by the 37 detainees in question, even as late as Monday evening, but added, "I'm sure they dont have evidence."

[khushal]

There are many the US arrests that are innocents. They arrest any guy with a gun. Afghanistan has a gun culture like america. Americans are too dumb to do anything right.

[ComradePashtun]

Not America’s business


Washington is incensed by the Afghan government’s decision to release 37 prisoners which the Americans deem a major security threat. The row that is brewing is likely to complicate already difficulty talks over Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai’s refusal to sign off on a deal, that would effectively extend America’s military presence in his country.

The 37 Taliban prisoners were among 88 detainees that the US handed over to the Afghan authorities last year. According to Washington, their hosts agreed that these 37 would not be released, because they were dangerous individuals. Yet now Kabul has decided that since there is insufficient evidence against them, the men should be set free.

All the people involved were once held by the Americans at the notorious Bagram jail, where interrogators put considerable effort into finding evidence that would enable suspects to be charged and tried for terrorism.

The fact that none of these individuals was brought to trial, reflects the inability of US investigators to build water-tight cases against them. In US law, such individuals, however strong the circumstantial evidence against them, would be released, because the US state would have no right to detain them. Moreover, the US could find itself in the dock accused of wrongful imprisonment and a raft of other rights infringements.

Yet in handing over the Taliban suspects to the Afghan government and expecting it to support its own skewed finding that they were terrorists, even though no conclusive proof could be found, the Americans were simply asking too much. It may very well be that some, maybe all of the suspects, are indeed important Taliban people. But Washington’s bitter reaction to their release is ignoring more than just the basic tenets of common justice. With the NATO withdrawal due to be completed this year, the Karzai government, for all its unenviable reputation for corruption and inefficiency, has to be thinking of the future...

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By law, and importantly according Afghan law it is illegal to continue to detain these individuals. Law has to reign and justice be done. How the hell can you detain someone without a trial, let alone for more than three days, but for months and years. Kudos Afghan government.

[Loy Afghanistan]

Head lines should be. US most dangerous goverment Mafia country in the world, invades kills millions of people for oil and resources. But that is not new news. 300 million genocide native Americans is the full proof facts, that needs no arguments.

[Shah-i-Kot]

There is no legal basis for the US/NATO to be in Afghanistan, and arrest any Afghan national.

[Manzareh]

Head lines should be. US most dangerous goverment Mafia country in the world, invades kills millions of people for oil and resources. But that is not new news. 300 million genocide native Americans is the full proof facts, that needs no arguments.

When you mention the genocide of native Americans, or the genocides of native Australian Aborigines or genocide of Zulu people in South Africa the reply is "oh that was a long time ago, why should we have guilt or need to pay for what our forefathers did when we were not even alive at the time".. whats ironic about these peoples mentality is how they justify Israel having the right to invade Palestine because they say Israelis inhabited the place 4-8 thousand years ago.. OK fine then by that narrative it should be OK for native Americans and Aborigines to take back their land because they were there before but their reply to that is "what!? that was ages ago, whats done is done" LOL theres no reasoning with Shaytan.