U.S. Closes Last Detention Facility In Afghanistan

U.S. Closes Last Detention Facility In Afghanistan

The United States’ mission in Afghanistan just announced that it closed its last detention facility in the country, transferring all its prisoners to Afghan custody. This marks another step in the ending of what some would call a controversial aspect of the war on terror launched more than a decade ago.

However, numerous attacks both in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city as well as in other parts of the country show that the conflict with extremists is far from over, even as most foreign NATO troops are either leaving or reducing their numbers and support.

Kabul was the scene of two horrific suicide bomber attacks, the first in over a week, which left six Afghani soldiers dead and 14 more wounded as well as one civilian dead and over 20 injured at a bombing outside a French school.

The attack was criticized by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius who called it “barbaric” adding that there were no French victims.

U.S. officials announced that the closing of the last prison facility ran by American troops in Bagram had nothing to do with a recently released controversial report on the way war-prisoners were interrogated, arguing that it was a part of the Bilateral Security Agreement signed with Afghanistan and a continuation of efforts to scale back military missions.

Posted by James Fried on Sunday December 14 2014, 10:26 AM EST. Ref: wp. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0