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Afghans call Bagram US Air Force base “Obama’s Gitmo”
Published: 02 February, 2010, 11:28
Edited: 12 March, 2010, 15:40
US soldiers stand guard beside prison cells during a media tour of Bagram prison, north of Kabul, on November 15, 2009 (AFP Photo/ Massoud Hossaini)
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By detaining people during night raids and torturing them in Afghan field prisons, the US military officials are not battling the insurgency, but actually creating it, believes investigative journalist Anand Gopal.
“I do not think it is realistic that they are going to pull out [of Afghanistan] by the end of 2011,” said Gopal, adding that American troops in Afghanistan will be there for five to seven years. “It really depends on how the war turns in the next couple of years.”
“The Afghan state cannot survive without foreign [funding]. If the US government stops financing it, the Afghan government will collapse tomorrow. The military, the police – everything is propped up by the US. So they completely rely on the United States,” explained Gopal.
The next year is going to be crucial for US forces in Afghanistan, predicts Anand Gopal, because “it will really test whether the troop surges work.”
02.02.2010, 11:04
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The images of heavy built and threatening American mercenaries running torture camps in Afghanistan and around the world brings shock to my soul. It is pertinent to register that degeneration of U.S moral fabric has started inside the United States itself. Today, there are more than 5M Americans in the U.S prison-military-Industrial complex. We must remember that the many of the mercenaries and former prison guards who have participated in the U.S torture practice in Abu Ghraib were former prison guards in the U.S. The expansion of the rate of incarceration of U.S citizens has now been used as a training site for the would be tortures and mercenaries in the service of the dying American military imperialism. Through this process, mercenaries and prison guards in Afghanistan Bagram torture camps and elsewhere have been systematically integrated into the prison-military- mercenary industries inside the U.S itself. This is truly sickening formation.
Yes, but this is what the wont ! How can they stay in Afghanistan if they do not provoke and therefore justyfing their presence to " fight terrorism ? " You are a bit naive. Pinocchio