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Afghan prisons: a bleaker Guantánamo (U.S.) and rioting (Afghanistan) Email Print

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]

the stories about the u.s. treatment of detainees worsen by the day...

   While an international debate rages over the future of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military has quietly expanded another, less-visible prison in Afghanistan, where it now holds some 500 terror suspects in more primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges.

NB: "expanded," "less visible," "more primitive," and "indefinitely" - quite a damning list for a single paragraph.

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