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Ruling: Bagram Detainees Cannot Use US Courts
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (May 21) -- Detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment the way detainees in Guantanamo Bay have, a federal appeals court ruled today. The United States is holding the detainees at the military prison on Afghan territory through a cooperative arrangement with Afghanistan, three appeals court judges said in a unanimous decision turning aside the request of a Tunisian and two Yemeni prisoners. The jurisdiction of the U.S. courts does not extend to foreigners held at Bagram in the Afghan theater of war, added the judges, who ...
Taliban Attack Largest US Air Base in Afghanistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(May 19) -- Suicide bombers armed with rockets and grenades launched a brazen assault before dawn today on the largest U.S. air base in Afghanistan, sparking a fierce battle that left 10 guerrillas and an American contractor dead. Nine other U.S. troops were wounded in today's attack on Bagram Air Base just north of Kabul, the U.S. military said. It comes a day after a suicide car bomber rammed into a NATO convoy in the capital, killing five American troops and a Canadian in the deadliest attack on foreign forces in Afghanistan in eight months. Tuesday's deaths helped raise the U.S. death ...
Accused Terrorist Omar Khadr Delays Hearing at Guantanamo
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Accused war criminal Omar Khadr initially did not show up for the second day of his pretrial hearing Thursday because of what his lawyers described as severe pain in his left eye. The absence of Khadr, a 23-year-old Canadian citizen captured in Afghanistan and charged with murder, conspiracy and support of terrorism, sparked a debate in the courtroom. Eventually Col. Patrick Parrish, the presiding judge, called a recess to give Khadr's attorneys a chance to convince him to attend. If Khadr failed to show, Parrish said he would order him to be brought to court. ...
The Afghanistan Surge: A Logistical Challenge with a Cast of Thousands
By David Wood - Politics DailyTroops are jamming two dozen at a time into eight-man Arctic tents hastily erected beside the runways at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, as the first of the 30,000-plus reinforcements ordered by President Obama arrive for the expanding war. It's simple enough for the commander in chief to order the additional troops into the fight at "the fastest possible pace,'' as Obama did in his West Point speech Dec. 1. Getting it done, safely and on time, will be barely short of miraculous, given the risks and vulnerabilities involved. Heavy-lift cargo planes jammed with troops or armored vehicles ...
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