Bagram air bottom in Afghanistan could be new Guantanamo

By Nick Allen 934AM GMT twenty-two March 2010

U.S. engineers correct the runway whilst a C-17 load craft takes off from Bagram Air bottom in Afghanistan Photo AP

The thought is being deliberate since but Guantanamo Bay, that President Barack Obama has affianced to shut, it has to possibly put suspects by the own justice complement or palm them over to unfamiliar governments.

"No one quite likes any of the choices prior to us right now, but Bagram might be the slightest bad between them," a comparison counterclaim central told the Los Angeles Times.

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Any preference to enhance the existent apprehension trickery at Bagram would be approaching to pull complicated critique from allies and human rights groups.

Bagram now binds around 800 prisoners, the immeasurable infancy prisoner in Afghanistan.

Control of the jail is due to be handed over to the Afghan supervision in January, but that would have to be behind if the US motionless to make make use of of it to hold unfamiliar militant suspects prisoner elsewhere.

Any make make use of of of Bagram for the same role as Guantanamo Bay would have to be authorized by Mr Obama.

Some comparison figures, together with Gen Stanley McChrystal, the commander in chief of Nato infantry in Afghanistan, are pronounced to be against to the idea, desiring it could be used as a promotion apparatus by the Taliban.