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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:04 PM
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US builds a bunch of no bid Jails across Afghanistan-
The U.S. military is supposed to turn its massive jail on the outskirts of Bagram Air Field over to the Afghan government this year. But the U.S. is going to keep holding detainees in Afghanistan for a long, looooong time to come — as new military construction contracts reveal.

One of the big unanswered questions of the plan to give the Detention Facility at Parwan to the Afghans is what happens to insurgents U.S. troops detain in the future. Rumors abound about secret, off-the-books jails kept by Special Operations Forces, but those are supposed to be only for insurgents suspected of possessing high-level intelligence. Where will the rest go?

Here’s a clue. The Army Corps of Engineers is just hired an Afghan contractor to build a new “U.S. government controlled detention facility.” The lockup has to include “4 Modular Detention Housing Units (MDHU), 1 Special Holding Unit (SHU), guard towers, to include utilities, communications, fencing and related site work.” It’s got to be built fast — as in, by November — and so the Afghan firm got a no-bid contract of unspecified value.

That’s just for starters...........

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/lockdown-u-s-building-new-jails-across-afghanistan/
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:07 PM
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1. Its only your tax money
What you bothered about ? :sarcasm:

:hi:
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:10 PM
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3. Further in the story ... it doesn't sound like
the US is leaving anytime soon....

They really don't sound like they are made to turnover to the Afghans.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:15 PM
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5. I don't think
there ever any real intention from day one of leaving at any future date.

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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:08 PM
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2. I'll be so thrilled to give up my social security for that.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:10 PM
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4. Operation Enduring Freedom
:patriot:
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:38 PM
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7. Operation Enduring War
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 12:38 PM
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6. And to think we actually voted for this
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 01:14 PM
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8. Kick
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 01:17 PM
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9. Who needs Gitmo? Wars without end...
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-11 01:23 PM
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10. Well, THAT sure is bringing "American Style Democracy" to the region.
I hope the Afghans like it,
because they don't have any choice.

Meet Hamid Karzai
or as Obama calls him, "The Government of Afghanistan".

He was appointed by Bush the Lesser to run Afghanistan.
He is one of the most despicable criminals in The World,
But NOW we like him so much
that our children fighting and dying in the deserts of Afghanistan to keep him in power.


WooHoo, another
"Uniquely American Solution!!!"


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