Pentagon to Build New Bagram Prison

The United States is planning to build a new detention camp at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan for locking up more alleged extremists and terrorists, a Pentagon official said Saturday. "I can confirm there are indeed plans to build a new detention ...

The move came because "our existing theater facility is deteriorating," Wright said, referring to the makeshift jail at Bagram that holds alleged extremist militants rounded up in the US "war on terror" launched after the September 11 attacks. The ...

O stensibly the reason for constructing the new prison is to overcome serious health risks to Afghan detainees, in general, and American military personnel, in particular, at the Bagram military base prison in Afghanistan, which presently holds 630 ...

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the report in The New York Times of the planned big complex at the Bagram military base."...The current, makeshift prison at Bagram holds about 630 prisoners, kept in wire-mesh pens surrounded by coils of razor wire. ...

The Pentagon is moving forward with a new prison at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, The New York Times reports. The planned construction represents a concession by the Bush administration that the United States will be holding prisoners in Afghanistan ...

The United States intends to build a big new prison at its main military base in Afghanistan, a shift from earlier aims to transfer most detainees to Afghan custody, The New York Times reported. A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the report in the Times'...

The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan , officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas ...