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Eugene

(61,964 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2014, 05:54 PM Dec 2014

U.S. closes Bagram prison, says it has no more detainees in Afghanistan

Source: Reuters

U.S. closes Bagram prison, says it has no more detainees in Afghanistan

KABUL Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:19pm EST

(Reuters) - The United States closed the Bagram detention facility on Dec. 10 and no longer has custody of any detainees in Afghanistan, the U.S. Defense Department said, closing a controversial chapter of Washington's long "war on terror".

(Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/10/us-usa-cia-torture-bagram-idUSKBN0JO2B720141210

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U.S. closes Bagram prison, says it has no more detainees in Afghanistan (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2014 OP

Yeah...US turned the base, and the detainees , over to the Afghanistans. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #1

dixiegrrrrl

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1. Yeah...US turned the base, and the detainees , over to the Afghanistans.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 08:20 PM

Dec 2014

and notice the date..TODAY.
AFTER the report could not be hidden any longer.

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