US unveils 'Guantanamo's evil twin' extended Bagram prison
Johnny Asia
16 Nov 2009
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US unveils 'Guantanamo's evil twin' extended Bagram prison --'The
Bagram prison resembled a concentration camp.' 16 Nov 2009 Journalists
have been allowed to inspect refurbished facilities at Bagram airbase
in Afghanistan, the largest US military hub in the region and home to
a controversial prison. Al Jazeera's correspondent James Bays, who was
among those who inspected the facilities on Sunday, said Bagram,
unlike its Guantanamo counterpart, was clearly not going to be shut
down soon. "The new prison wing cost some $60 million [for KBR] to
build ..." Bays said. "But we were not shown the detainees.
Human-rights lawyers say that, while the environment for the prisoners
may be changing, their legal situation is not ... not having been
charged. Nor has any civilian lawyer ever been allowed inside." Omar
Dighayes, a former detainee at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay, said the
Bagram prison resembled a concentration camp. "People were beaten,
dragged, tortured in it," he told Al Jazeera.
New Evidence Jack Straw Guilty On Torture - A Smoking Gun By
Ambassador Craig Murray 16 Nov 2009 Finally I have indisputable
documentary evidence that the British government had a positive policy
of using intelligence from torture in the War on Terror, and that the
policy was personally directed by Jack Straw. Here are the minutes of
the meeting at which I was told this. All references to the CIA and
MI6 have been literally cut out, but the meaning is till perfectly
unmistakeable particularly given the heading of the minute. And here
is the absolute smoking gun of Jack Straw's involvement. Straw has
been lying about this for five years. He dismissed my evidence on this
to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as "Entirely
untrue".