U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cody Collins and Spc. Daniel Camino walk across a stream during a village assessment in Jalrez Valley, Wardak province, Afgahnistan, March 12, 2009. The soldiers, assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, focus on assessing the villages, talking with local leaders and identifying needed projects. DoD photo by Fred W. Baker IIIFrom Yahoo News/AFP:
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A federal judge on Thursday ruled that some inmates held at a US military base in Afghanistan have the legal right to challenge their detention in US courts.
The Supreme Court has previously ruled that detainees held at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have the right to challenge their detention. But the government had argued that inmates at the US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan did not have such a constitutional right.
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My Comment: This is not a problem. Just put as a figurehead an Afghan Minister or General as Director of the Prison ... and presto .... it is now an Afghan prison in Afghanistan.
This ruling is a classic over reach by a judge in the U.S. legal system .... its ruling will go nowhere except to serve as propaganda fodder for antiwar activists and/or for the Taliban itself.