Posted on 09/12/2021 6:20:27 PM PDT by elpadre
The notorious detention centre built by the Americans inside the huge Bagram military base is a terrifying place even when empty.
It's known locally as Afghanistan's Guantanamo. Those who were held here feared they'd never leave. Many who did leave have never been the same since.
We're the first Western television team to get inside the infamous prison. Both the Americans and their Afghan security partners are particularly sensitive about outside eyes seeing inside.
We squeeze through twisted sheets of corrugated metal where captives forced their way out hours after the capital fell to the Taliban and only weeks after the US soldiers left the base in a hurry. The Taliban unlocked all the cells holding those who hadn't been able to break out themselves - among them hundreds suspected of being ISIS-K prisoners, from an offshoot of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group.
Now the Taliban is manning the gates of the huge sprawling military base which grew into a small city and was the coalition's main military hub during its 20-year-long military mission. Originally built by Russian invaders in the 1950s, the Americans extended it to include a gym, a 50-bed hospital and the much-feared detention centre.
In the detention centre, they housed and interrogated the Taliban fighters they caught in battle or suspects they feared would end up on the battlefield.
Some were viewed as high-ranking terror suspects but there were also hundreds of ordinary Afghans - farmers, stallholders, students and Taliban sympathisers deemed dangerous or suspicious. (photos at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
“...Former president Hamid Karzai told Sky News in an interview he gave before the Taliban pushed out the Ashraf Ghani government that the existence of the Bagram detention centre and the terrible stories emanating from within it infuriated him and caused multiple fallouts between him and the American politicians he dealt with.
He never forgave his American partners for what happened inside Bagram detention centre.
“They were meant to come here for peace, not bomb villages and hold captives,” he told us in July.
The Americans said a few years ago they handed over control to the Afghan security partners they had trained but few in the country believed the US relinquished complete control especially as the centre sits inside the military base they ran and operated.
For most Afghans, the Bagram detention centre was firmly an American creation and one which continues to be a terrible stain on their reputation....”
Well, on the positive side, when we get hit, we will know where it came from.
Clearly we need to spend money to arm these brave freedom fighters.
I’m sure the taliban are already using it to house and torture their prisoners.
Don’t worry the Chinese will tidy the place up when they move in
“...there were also hundreds of ordinary Afghans - farmers, stallholders, students and Taliban sympathisers deemed dangerous or suspicious.”
That is exaggeration - once a person is cleared I suspect they were released. However, if they were Taliban/ISIS fighters, or those who provided aid and cover for them, they stayed.
Vietnam Déjà vu.....
Exactly. Most of it’s left Intact with plenty of supplies so should be easy for someone with the resources to reopen.
Clearly the Administration should have taken time to clear out all US documents, equipment, communications devises, remove or destroy all military equipment, firearms, ammunition, aircraft, etc. I foresee losing US lives because of this failure.
well, they don’t have to worry about that anymore...
ya got what you wanted, enjoy
I will mention my solution again: napalm and white phosphorus, both in copious quantities.
If they had just fed all of them to the pigs, it would have been a bed of roses by now.
Bagram was hastily abandoned in the middle of the night by the Americans and left in the hands of the then still existing Afghan government.If intelligence information was left behind that would identify cooperating Afghans,the idenity of Taliban/ISIS that turned, or any classified information about personel or techniques, then those that ordered that abandonment themselves must be identified and forced to testify under oath before Congress. The Biden cabal does not have the dignity or honor to accept accountability but it is critically important for America’s security to investigate and understand the entire debacle.However painful, it must be done.
“...critically important for America’s security to investigate and understand the entire debacle....”
I absolutely agree with you!!!
Really? What connection do you see?
The bail out.
Only much, much worse this time around.
We should have planted a command detonated nuclear device deep under Baghram , and the first time they act up......
Come to think of it, it was the Democrats again, wasn't it?
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