Afghan Officials Say No Decision Yet on Bagram Detainees

A senior official in Afghanistan says Kabul is reviewing evidence against 88 detainees in custody at the Bagram detention center and whose fate has become a source of tension between the United States and Afghanistan.   The Obama administration wants the prisoners transferred out of U.S. custody at Bagram Air Base, but to remain detained there under Afghan authority, because it considers many of them dangerous.  However the Afghan commission tasked to review their cases has...

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