US military are not only putting Bagram prisoners to torture, denying their access to lawyers (www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/international/asia). Now the Pentagon has decided to build a new “40-acre detention complex on US military base in Afghanistan” (www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/asia/17detain.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)!
Certainly existing prisons in this country cannot absord all our citizens now detained by US soldiers, much less the waves of new prisoners from the escalating fight against neighboring Iraqi rebels, Talibs from Pakistan and possibly for future Iranian and Chinese prisoners of war…
And there is no surprise that a new US-financed prison is planned to be a large complex of 6 to 10 semi-permanent structures resembling Quonset huts, each the size of a football field, for accommodation from 600 to 1,100 prisoners, compared with the 270 held at Guantanamo Bay. At this rate the half of our country will turn into a prison soon as it takes place in the very USA!
And it is the way, in which the USA tries to “establish democracy in this country, providing complete freedom” for Afghani people, isn’t it? At last we get the main base of US democracy - high-security and deeply democratic …PRISON! Ah-ha-ha!