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April 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
It was the first step toward handing over control of the prison to Afghan
authorities and another move to transferring complete security
responsibility to the volatile country before the planned pullout of most
Western forces.
Afghanistan, which has long sought control of Bagram prison, says no sovereign
country can allow thousands of its people to be held indefinitely under
foreign guard and that it alone has the powers to determine what to do with
them.
The two sides reached an agreement in March to shift the prison to Afghan
control after months of wrangling and a key element of the pact was that
Afghanistan would consult with the United States before freeing any of the
men incarcerated there.
“And if the United States provides its assessment that continued
detention is necessary to prevent the detainee from engaging in or
facilitating terrorist activity, Afghanistan is to consider favourably such
assessment,” the document said.
US officials have interpreted that to mean that the two sides at the very
least would have to agree before any of the detainees, many held for years
without any trial, could be freed.
Prisoners there will gradually be transferred to Afghan custody over six
months, and US forces will provide “technical and logistical support”
for a further six months.
About 50 non-Afghan detainees at the prison will remain in US custody, both
sides have said.
Under the agreement, Afghanistan also has to provide the United States access
to the transferred detainees to ensure that they are being treated in
accordance with humanitarian laws.
They may also be able to interrogate them, which has long been a key US
demand, US and Afghan officials said.
“This is something that Afghan commanders at the prison will decide,”
said an Afghan government official, who declined to go into any more detail
because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Source: Reuters
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