The United States Forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A) condemned the ordered release of 65 detainees from Afghan National Detention Facility in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan.
United States Forces in Afghanistan following a statement, said USFOR-A has learned that 65 dangerous individuals from a group of 88 detainees under dispute have been ordered released from Bagram detention facility.
The statement further added, “The U.S. has, on several occasions, provided extensive information and evidence on each of the 88 detainees to the Afghan Review Board, the Afghan National Directorate of Security and the Attorney General’s office.”
USFOR-A in its statement also added that the release of prisoners marked dangerous, violates agreements between the U.S. and Afghanistan.
“We have made clear our judgment that these individuals should be prosecuted under Afghan law. We requested that the cases be carefully reviewed. But the evidence against them was never seriously considered, including by the Attorney General, given the short time since the decision was made to transfer these cases to the Afghan legal system,” the statement added.
This comes as the Attorney General officials announced that 65 Bagram prisoners will be released as per the instructions of the Attorney General Office of Afghanistan.
A spokesman for the Attorney General Office, Basir Azizi, confirmed that release order for the freedom of 65 prisoners from the Bagram detention facility has been issued.
He did not say when the prisoners are going to be released from the detention facility.
In the meantime, USFOR-A said that the detainees who are due to be released, are involved behind roadside bombings which is widely considered as the primary casue of civilian casualties in Afghanistan.
“The release of these detainees is a major step backward for the rule of law in Afghanistan. Some previously-released individuals have already returned to the fight, and this subsequent release will allow dangerous insurgents back into Afghan cities and villages,” USFOR-A said in its statement.
Sure hope those 65 prisoners are worth $2.6 billion dollars in lost development aid. ( You know things like Construction projects, Roads, Crop assistance, Medical assistance, Employment assistance) That’s around $ 40 million each. I wonder how the normal citizens feel about Karzai’s leadership inability now? Hey, I just forgot! There’s a Presidential election going on right now!
So how are these men supposed to promise the citizens of Afghanistan anything when President Karzai is hell bent on eliminating the Afghan budget?
Just asking…
Hope the next President is a better Statesman and cares more for Afghans than numb nuts Karzai.
Dear Hamid Karzai,
It has been brought to my attention that you are on a vendetta against your own nation ( Afghanistan), USA, and NATO in side stepping your own rule of law in not bringing the 65 serious criminals described in this article and others, and ordering your Attorney General to release these dangerous individuals into the public so that they may return to their homes and villages to resume the same types of criminal behavior there were originally arrested and imprisoned for.
And while I can do nothing to convince you to operate within the law, I can contact every branch of USA government and URGE my government to cut off ALL AID TO AFGHANISTAN until you HAMID KARZAI have been relived of your office and position of President of Afghanistan.
I hear Senator Lindsey Graham -USA wants to freeze another ~1.3 billion in aid bringing that total to $2.6 Billion in Afghanistan Aid, and has already informed Carl Levin Chairman of the Armed Services Committee that he wishes to immediately freeze 100% of this aid. I understand the Chairman concurs.
To give all peace wanting Afghans understanding of how important it is to VOTE and take part in their national government, I make the following information available to them through this news source. I am using my constitutional right to contact my government leaders providing my VOTE to CUT OFF ALL AID KARZAI GOVERNMENT CURRENTLY HAS CONTROL OVER. Until he is voted out of office and replaced by a credible leader capable of caring for the great and just people of Afghanistan.
Karzai does NOT represent Afghanistan, or its people. He stands alone and has his own agenda.
Looks like today is a bad day to be Hamid Karzai.
Looks like all those pledges of aid to rebuild Afghanistan, all those promises of jobs for Afghans are on there way out the door because of one man. Who? Hamid Karzai. Why? Mr. Karzai knows the last President was gutted like a Pig by the Taliban when they came to power. So what has Hamid Karzai been doing? Embezzling USA and NATO money while undoing all the good that has been achieved for the Afghan people by international forces.
Oh some people say the foreigners want Afghanistan’s mineral wealth. Well we sure don’t want Afghanistan’s Opium, but it is the only thing Afghans are currently good at. And Taliban is in control of that. Honestly the farmers farm it because they are told to and it is better for them to make money than make no money right? So do they get the big money? No. The Taliban gets the big money so they can use it to buy weapons and keep the fight going. Oddly Taliban once had Opium production almost halted because they are fundamentally against it. But when they were forced to turn to it because of the “invaders” they willfully turned to it. Opium production supplies Taliban with their money to keep fighting. And after USA NATO leaves, once again Opium will be the only major way to provide work for Afghans.
To the Afghans a urgent notice. It won’t work. But Taliban doesn’t have the education to negotiate mine contracts with India, not would they want to. They hate India. The major world powers can give work through reconstruction projects and mine contracts as a means for Afghans to work, to know a life other than war. Karzai? He wants to either hand control over to Taliban and to have a part in new government. OR to take his gold on the last USA plane out of Afghanistan.
Afghan’s It would not be fair to you or the USA, or NATO to bring him with us on our way out. We want you to keep him. Do we need to know what you will eventually do to him? No. You can keep that to yourselves. It is sad day to be an Afghan citizen today. On one side you have Taliban wanting to kill you and torture you in inconceivable ways.
On the other side you have President Karzai making a shame of government set up for all Afghans, but taken hostage by him. Now he is disobeying his own rule of law by not giving the 88 prisoners a fair day in court, a court which works and even has a 70% conviction rate for those who are guilty. The USA and NATO have mountains of evidence, but Karzai is strong arming his government and when that occurs, it’s time to Impeach the President and place him in Jail.
His actions have not gone unseen in USA. With this latest action the USA is currently awaiting the release of 65 prisoners set to occur February 13 2014. If and when it does USA will END all DEVELOPMENTAL AID TO AFGHANISTAN under Karzai leadership. Who knows if there is possibility for new government to negotiate funding. To do that I think they will have to show USA and other governments they are not the same corrupt government as Karzai has created.
One nice thing about electing new government in a Democracy is if there is something wrong with the old or existing government the representative peoples of that entire nation can vote the bad people out of office and replace them with better people.
Sadly it seems the international coalition is starting to give up on Afghanistan. Why?
Answer?
Hamid Karzai.