The latest squabble over Afghan detainees, national security and access to information involves hairdos.
The latest squabble over Afghan detainees, national security and access to information involves hairdos.
Meanwhile, Hamid Karzai is alleging abuse and demanding that all detainees under NATO control be handed over.
American officials, caught off guard by the president’s order, scrambled to figure out the source of the allegations. Now they have at least part of an answer: the Afghan commission that documented the abuses appears to have focused mainly on the side of the prison run by Afghan authorities, not the American-run part, according to interviews with American and Afghan officials.
Mr. Karzai was, in essence, demanding that the Americans cede control of a prison to Afghan authorities to stop abuses being committed by Afghan authorities.
Detainees taken by Canadian Forces are presently being transferred to the Americans.