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| US Transfers Detainees to Afghan Government After Riot |
| 2005-07-29 |
| From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Police in Afghanistan said the U.S. military has handed over a group of Afghans detained following a 26 July protest outside the main U.S. base at Bagram in Parwan Province, north of Kabul... At least 1,000 Afghans demonstrated to demand the release of the locals, whom the U.S. military said were arrested in an anti-insurgency operation. The U.S. military claimed that improvised bombs of the sort used by Taliban and allied Islamist insurgents against U.S. and government forces were discovered during the raids. Parwan police chief Abdul Rahman Sayyedkhayl said all of the detained men were handed over to Afghan police custody, while U.S. authorities promised not to search houses without government approval. According to initial reports, Afghan forces accompanied their U.S. counterparts during the arrests, which included a local commander formerly associated with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's radical Hizb-e Islami. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #1 You knew it had to be Hek's |
| Posted by: ed 2005-07-29 09:41 |